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The new woman literary modernism, queer theory, and the trans feminine allegory

Title
The new woman [electronic resource] : literary modernism, queer theory, and the trans feminine allegory / Emma Heaney.
Author
Heaney, Emma.
Publication
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.

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Description
1 online resource (xvii, 345 pages)
Series Statement
Flashpoints
Uniform Title
  • New woman (Online)
  • FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Alternative Title
New woman (Online)
Subject
  • Transgender people in literature
  • Gender identity in literature
  • Male-to-female transsexuals
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Queer theory
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
The modernist allegory of trans femininity -- The development of the allegory of trans femininity : sexology, gay rights, psychoanalysis, and modernism -- Blooming into a female Everyman : feeling like a woman in Joyce's Ulysses -- The flesh that would become myth : Barnes's suffering female and the trans feminine example -- Ceased to be word and became flesh : trans feminine life writing and Genet's vernacular modernism -- Materialist trans feminism against queer theory -- A triumphant plural : post-structuralism, queer theory, and the trans feminine -- Materialist trans feminism against queer theory.
LCCN
2017017682
OCLC
ssj0001839167
Author
Heaney, Emma.
Title
The new woman [electronic resource] : literary modernism, queer theory, and the trans feminine allegory / Emma Heaney.
Imprint
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Series
Flashpoints
FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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