Beschreibung:
This book analyses twentieth-century writers who traffic in queer, non-normative, and/or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices, revealing how gender and sexually variant women create, revise, redefine, and play with language, desires, roles, the body, and identity.
1 "Thinking sex": presentation, representation, and manifestation; an unveiling; 2 Hidden spaces and the switch: Gertrude Stein does man-space and girl pink; 3 Theory must be doing: Jeanette Winterson, Eileen Myles, and Kathy Acker switch in the spaces and language of non-normative identities and desires; 4 Memoir, girl and teen-hood: the body, and deviancy in Kathy Acker, Anne Carson, and Sappho; 5 Concluding possibilities for switching: gender, sex, and identity freedom