Genders 23: Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Performance

by Ellen E. Berry, Carol Siegel, Ellen E. Bery

Book Overview

What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed have in common with the representation of indigenous women in Canadian police archives? How are literary representations of domestic violence related to the use of silence as a strategy of resistance in African American women's writing? How are modernist fictions of gay male desire connected with ambiguous sexual performances in rock music or with images of Vietnam veterans in American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081472647X
• ISBN13: 9780814726471
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"