<P>This book analyses twentieth-century writers who traffic in queer, non-normative, and/or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices, revealing how gender and sexually variant women create, revise, redefine, and play with language, desires, roles, the body, and identity. </P><P>Through the model of the "switch" ¿someone who shifts between roles, desires, or ways of being in the realms of gender or sexual identity ¿ <EM>Gender and Sexual Fluidity in 20th Century Women Writers: Switching Desire and Identity </EM>examines the intersecting locations of gender and sexual identity switching that six prolific, experimental authors and their narratives play with: Gertrude Stein, Jeanette Winterson, Kathy Acker, Eileen Myles, Anne Carson, and Anne Carson¿s translations of Sappho. The theory and identities revealed create and give space to¿by their playful, exploratory, and destabilizing nature¿diverse openings and possibilities for a great expansion and fr
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Who are the greatest spy writers of the twentieth century? This book narrows the field down to Buchan, Fleming and Le Carre, including accounts of their lives alongside their books. Agree or disagree? Carradice makes his case!
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This book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life,...
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<p><strong>Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands.</strong> The women¿s working days were much longer than the miners, who typically...
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