Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture近代早期英国文学与文化中性别的物质体现

作者简介

Through examining some of the everyday items that helped establish a person's masculinity or femininity, this book offers a new analysis of gender identity in early modern English literature and culture. Individual chapters focus on items such as codpieces, handkerchiefs, beards, and hair. Fisher argues that these seemingly peripheral parts were in fact constitutive, and consequently that early modern gender was materialized through a relatively wide range of parts or features, and that it was also often conceptualized as being malleable. The book deliberately brings together sexual characteristics (beard growth and hair length) and gendered accessories (codpieces and handkerchiefs) in order to explore the limitations of using the modern conceptual distinction between sex and gender to understand early modern ideas about masculinity and femininity. Materializing Gender engages with a range of historical materials including drama, poetry, portraiture, medical texts, and polemical tracts, and a range of theoretical issues.

书籍目录

List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: prosthetic gender in early modem England1  That Shakespearean rag: handkerchiefs and femininity2  "That codpiece ago": codpieces and masculinity3  "His majesty the beard": beards and masculinity4  "The ornament of their sex": hair and gender5  Conclusion: detachable parts and the individualNotesBibliographyIndex

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