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No Man's Land - The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: Sexchanges (Paperback, New Ed)
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No Man's Land - The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: Sexchanges (Paperback, New Ed)
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What might sex be, and what could sex roles be, in the midst of a
war between men and women? What is a "woman," a "man," an
"androgyne"? Such questions haunt the works Gilbert and Gubar study
in Sexchanges, the second volume of their landmark trilogy No Man's
Land. Investigating the connections between the feminine and the
modern made by writers from Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner, and
Kate Chopin to Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia
Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Caryl Churchill, they show that the "no
man's land" of the Great War became a metaphor for a crisis of
masculinity-a crisis that was already associated with the decline
of imperialism and the rise of the femme fatale at the fin de
siecle, with the newly visible lesbian literary community that was
formed in those years and with what many thinkers increasingly
understood to be the artifice of gender. Throughout this century,
the therefore argue, images of sexchanges-explored in fictions
about transvestism and transsexualism-constituted a set of striking
tropes through which male and female writers sought to combat one
another's conceptions of the relation between anatomy and destiny.
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