Masculinities Without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions

by Jean Bobby Noble

Conventional ideas about gender and sexuality dictate that people born with male bodies naturally possess both a man's identity and a man's right to authority. Recent scholarship in the field of gender studies, however, exposes the complex political technologies that construct gender as a supposedly unchanging biological essence with self-evident links to physicality, identity, and power. In Masculinities without Men? Jean Bobby Noble explores how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774809973
• ISBN13: 9780774809979
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"