Forming and Reforming Identity exposes the historical sites of identity formation and seeks to define the mechanisms of modern-day gender ideologies. Illuminating the power of the family and state in shaping gender identities, the book also examines the constitution of these identities. Each chapter reveals the complexities and contradictions that inevitably accompany the formation of any new category of identity, whether they are deliberately restrictive or intended as a reformation of the old.
The volume moves, as gender construction does, across a field of different media:...
Forming and Reforming Identity exposes the historical sites of identity formation and seeks to define the mechanisms of modern-day gender id...
Carol Siegel challenges the standard representation of Lawrence in feminist criticism and places his work in the context of women's literary traditions.
Carol Siegel challenges the standard representation of Lawrence in feminist criticism and places his work in the context of women's literary tradition...
What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed have in common with the representation of indigenous women in Canadian police archives? How are literary representations of domestic violence related to the use of silence as a strategy of resistance in African American women's writing? How are modernist fictions of gay male desire connected with ambiguous sexual performances in rock music or with images of Vietnam veterans in American horror movies? What does a narrative of women's participation in Bengali national resistance movements share with an ethnographic study of...
What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed have in common with the representation of indigenous women in Canadian police arch...
