Literature & Gender Studies Books

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41. Approximate Bodies

    Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy

    By Maurizio Calbi

    The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and...

    Published April 25th 2005 by Routledge
42. Dangerous Desire

    Literature of Sexual Freedom and Sexual Violence Since the Sixties

    By Pamela Barnett

    Published September 14th 2004 by Routledge
43. The Medusa Reader

    Edited by Marjorie Garber, Nancy J. Vickers

    Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology....

    Published February 23rd 2003 by Routledge
44. Decoding Gender in Science Fiction

    By Brian Attebery

    Published September 19th 2002 by Routledge
45. Boss Ladies, Watch Out!

    Essays on Women, Sex and Writing

    By Terry Castle

    A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today....

    Published August 22nd 2002 by Routledge
46. Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

    Edited by Eukene Lacarra Lanz

    Series: Hispanic Issues

    Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge
47. Sexual/Textual Politics

    Feminist Literary Theory, 2nd Edition

    By Toril Moi

    Series: New Accents

    What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and examines the strengths and limitations of the two...

    Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge
48. Judith Butler

    By Sara Salih

    Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

    Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as:* The subject* Gender* Sex* Language* The...

    Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge
49. The Cold Counsel

    The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth

    Edited by Sarah M. Anderson, Karen Swenson

    Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family...

    Published December 20th 2001 by Routledge
50. Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation

    Edited by Peter I. Barta

    Series: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature

    Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature,but are also arranged into sections according to...

    Published July 25th 2001 by Routledge