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Flashpoints Ser.: New Woman : Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory by Emma Heaney (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
ISBN-10081013554X
ISBN-139780810135543
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038826667
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
Publication NameNew Woman : Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSubjects & Themes / Women, LGBT
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
AuthorEmma Heaney
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesFlashpoints Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight23.4 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2017-017682
Reviews"While trans masculine studies have helped to redefine both queer theory and literary modernism, trans feminist studies have largely been absent. Thus, the theoretical insights of this book will provide an original and long overdue addition to the fields of Queer Theory, Modernism, and twentieth-century literary and cultural studies."--Jaime E. Hovey, author of A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism , "While trans masculine studies have helped to redefine both Queer Theory and literary Modernism, trans feminist studies have largely been absent. The theoretical insights of this book will provide an original and long overdue addition to the fields of Queer Theory, Modernism, and twentieth-century literary and cultural studies."--Jaime E. Hovey, author of A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism , "Heaney provides insightful and informed analyses of a wide range of writings from the modernist era, in the context of medical, psychoanalytic, feminist and material challenges to binary notions of gender and sex. Reading what she terms a 'trans feminine archive' of first-person accounts, Heaney argues against the figural appropriation of the trans feminine, detailing a range of trans experience and the various ways individuals have related to their bodies and sex experiences. Her argument is compelling, important, and timely."--Pamela L. Caughie, author of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself , " The New Woman is an exciting breakthrough for scholars and armchair readers alike who are seeking to put the femme in feminist studies, lesbian studies, and even queer theory." -- Lambda Literary "Heaney provides insightful and informed analyses of a wide range of writings from the modernist era, in the context of medical, psychoanalytic, feminist and material challenges to binary notions of gender and sex. Reading what she terms a 'trans feminine archive' of first-person accounts, Heaney argues against the figural appropriation of the trans feminine, detailing a range of trans experience and the various ways individuals have related to their bodies and sex experiences. Her argument is compelling, important, and timely."--Pamela L. Caughie, author of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself, "While trans masculine studies have helped to redefine both Queer Theory and literary Modernism, trans feminist studies have largely been absent. The theoretical insights of this book will provide an original and long overdue addition to the fields of Queer Theory, Modernism, and twentieth-century literary and cultural studies." --Jaime E. Hovey, author of A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism, "While trans masculine studies have helped to redefine both Queer Theory and literary Modernism, trans feminist studies have largely been absent. The theoretical insights of this book will provide an original and long overdue addition to the fields of Queer Theory, Modernism, and twentieth-century literary and cultural studies."--Jaime E. Hovey, author of A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism, "In a thoughtful, provocative analysis of the transfeminine, Heaney draws on diverse literary, autobiographical, medical, psychoanalytical, and theoretical sources, from the late 19th century to the present, to refute monolithic, demeaning views of transfeminine experiences and culture. Especially illuminating are case histories and life writing, which afford ample evidence to counter assumptions, held by many cis heterosexuals, that trans females are isolated, persecuted, and abused. Heaney's title alludes to the rebellious new woman of the early 20th century, a transitional figure seeking redefinition and liberation from constricting roles. Highly recommended." -- CHOICE, "In a thoughtful, provocative analysis of the transfeminine, Heaney draws on diverse literary, autobiographical, medical, psychoanalytical, and theoretical sources, from the late 19th century to the present, to refute monolithic, demeaning views of transfeminine experiences and culture. Especially illuminating are case histories and life writing, which afford ample evidence to counter assumptions, held by many cis heterosexuals, that trans females are isolated, persecuted, and abused. Heaney's title alludes to the rebellious new woman of the early 20th century, a transitional figure seeking redefinition and liberation from constricting roles. Highly recommended." -- CHOICE "The book's final two chapters may very well become required reading for students of queer theory." -- James Joyce Quarterly, " The New Woman is an exciting breakthrough for scholars and armchair readers alike who are seeking to put the femme in feminist studies, lesbian studies, and even queer theory." -- LambdaLiterary "Heaney provides insightful and informed analyses of a wide range of writings from the modernist era, in the context of medical, psychoanalytic, feminist and material challenges to binary notions of gender and sex. Reading what she terms a 'trans feminine archive' of first-person accounts, Heaney argues against the figural appropriation of the trans feminine, detailing a range of trans experience and the various ways individuals have related to their bodies and sex experiences. Her argument is compelling, important, and timely."--Pamela L. Caughie, author of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself, "Heaney provides insightful and informed analyses of a wide range of writings from the modernist era, in the context of medical, psychoanalytic, feminist and material challenges to binary notions of gender and sex. Reading what she terms a 'trans feminine archive' of first-person accounts, Heaney argues against the figural appropriation of the trans feminine, detailing a range of trans experience and the various ways individuals have related to their bodies and sex experiences. Her argument is compelling, important, and timely."--Pamela L. Caughie, author of Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume Number27
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal809.9335267
Table Of ContentTABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON USAGE PART ONE: THE MODERNIST ALLEGORY OF TRANS FEMININITY PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: The Development of the Allegory of Trans Femininity: Sexology, Gay Rights, PSychoanalysis, and Literary Modernism CHAPTER 2: Blooming into a Female Everyman: Feeling Like a Woman in Joyce's Ulysses CHAPTER 3: The Flesh That Would Become Myth: Barnes's Suffering Female Anatomy and Nightwood's Transsexual Example CHAPTER 4: Ceased To Be Word and Became Flesh: Trans Feminine Life Writing and Genet's Vernacular Counter-Modernism PART TWO: MATERIALIST TRANS FEMINISM AGAINST QUEER THEORY CHAPTER 5: A Triumphant Plural: Poststructuralism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine CHAPTER 6: Materialist Trans Feminism Against Queer Theory BIBLIOGRAPHY
SynopsisThe New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the use of the trans feminine as an allegorical figure, from the practice's origins in nineteenth-century sexology through writings in the fields of psychoanalysis, Modernist fiction, and contemporary Queer Theory. The book is the first to identify the process by which medical sources simplified the diversity of trans feminine experience into a single diagnostic narrative. It then demonstrates that this medical figure became an archetype for the "sexual anarchy" of the Modernist period in works by Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot, and Jean Genet. Thus illuminating the trans feminine's Modernist provenance, the book examines foundational works of Queer Theory that resuscitated the trans feminine allegory at the end of the twentieth century. Insightful and seminal, The New Woman debunks the pervasive reflex beginning in the 1990s to connect trans experience to a late twentieth-century collapse of sexual differences by revealing the Modernist roots of that very formulation., Emma Heaney's The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the evolution of the "trans feminine" as an allegorical figure from its origins in the late nineteenth century to contemporary Queer Theory.
LC Classification NumberPN56.G45H43 2017
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