Gender and Sexual Fluidity in 20th Century Women Writers

<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 freedom in gender sexuality desires roles practices and identity.</p><p>This is a provocative and innovative intervention in gender and sexuality in modern literature and gives us a new vocabulary and conversation by which to expand women’s and gender studies LGBTQ and sexuality studies identity studies literature feminist theory and queer theory.</p>