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Identities on the Move - Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities (Hardcover)
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Identities on the Move - Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities (Hardcover)
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The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become
a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in
the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender
and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a
major concern in both fields. The legacy of this process has its
origins in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the
twentieth century. The Victorian preoccupation about the female
body and sexual promiscuity was focused on the regulation of
deviant elements in society and the control of venereal disease;
homosexuals, lesbians, and prostitutes' identities were considered
out of the norm and against the moral values of the time. The
relationship between sexuality and gender identity has attracted
wide-ranging discussion amongst feminist theorists during the last
few decades. The methodologies of cultural studies and, in
particular, of post-structuralism and post-colonialism, urges us to
read and interpret different cultures and different texts in ways
that enhance personal and collective views of identity which are
culturally grounded. These readings question the postmodernist
concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of
identity and difference addressing post-positivist interpretations
of key identity markers such as sex, gender, race, and agency. As a
consequence, an individual's identity is recognized as culturally
constructed and the result of power relations. Identities on the
Move: Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender
Identities offers creative insights on pressing issues and engages
in productive dialogue. Identities on the Move to addresses the
topic of new sexualities and gender identities and their
representation in post-colonial and contemporary Anglophone
literary, historical, and cultural productions from a
trans-national, trans-cultural, and anti-essentialist perspective.
The authors include the views and concerns of people of color, of
women in the diaspora, in our evermore multiethnic and
multicultural societies, and their representation in the media,
films, popular culture, subcultures, and the arts.
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