Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies

by Elspeth Probyn

Book Overview

Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of the self, an issue of vital importance to feminists and yet neglected by feminist theory until now, to suggest that there are ways of using our gendered selves in order to speak and theorize non-essential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415073561
• ISBN13: 9780415073561
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"