The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory Volume 27

by Emma Heaney

Book Overview

The 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810135531
• ISBN13: 9780810135536
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"