Glover and Kaplan (both English, U. of Southampton) update their 2000 account to keep up with the mercurial term as it is used in scholarship on literature and culture. Overall they cover gendered histories and contexts, femininity and feminism, masculinities, queering the pitch, and readers and spectators. More specifically, they examine such topics and doctors and dictionaries, gender and sexual science, race and femininity in African American writing, lesbian fiction after modernism, dissipation and natural character, the hero as a man of letters, in and out of the closet, anti-communitarian impulses, gender and the public sphere, and interpretive communities, Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to gender and its implications, including:
- an overview of the critical language and concepts surrounding gender from their historical inception to contemporary debates
- discussions of the major theorists in the field updated and extended coverage of lesbian and queer theory
- a new glossary of terms essential to an understanding of the debate on gender in contemporary theory.
With its impressive breadth and depth of coverage, this volume offers not only a comprehensive history of this complex term, but also indicates its ongoing presence in literary and cultural theory and the new directions it is taking.
The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to 'gender' and its implications, including:
- an overview of the critical language and concepts surrounding gender from their historical inception to contemporary debates
- discussions of the major theorists in the field updated and extended coverage of lesbian and queer theory
- a new glossary of terms essential to an understanding of the debate on gender in contemporary theory.
With its impressive breadth and depth of coverage, this volume offers not only a comprehensive history of this complex term, but also indicates its ongoing presence in literary and cultural theory and the new directions it is taking.
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