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category: Social Science
published: Jul 2004
ISBN:9780774809979
publisher: UBC Press

Masculinities without Men?

Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions

by Jean Bobby Noble

tagged: gender studies, women's studies
Description

Conventional ideas about gender and sexuality dictate that people born with male bodies naturally possess both a man’s identity and a man’s right to authority. Recent scholarship in the field of gender studies, however, exposes the complex political technologies that construct gender as a supposedly unchanging biological essence with self-evident links to physicality, identity, and power. In Masculinities without Men? Jean Bobby Noble explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, resulting in a permanent rupture in the sex/gender system, and how masculinity became an unstable category, altered across time, region, social class, and ethnicity.

About the Author

Jean Bobby Noble

Contributor Notes

Jean Noble teaches in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Victoria.

Awards
  • Winner, Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
Editorial Reviews

Masculinities Without Men? is a richly theoretical text, explicating intricate socio-cultural phenomena with meticulous finesse. It approaches important literary and filmic texts and key areas of gender and sexuality studies in a thoughtful manner. Its thorough theoretical context makes it an important resource for scholars invested in gender theory. Jean Bobby Noble is clearly in the process of staking out a provocative and cutting-edge terrain within gender studies.

— Canadian Woman Studies, Winter/Spring 2005

Attentive to the detailed narrative work of prose fiction writers and the interpretive responses they provoke, Noble engages complex masculinities with analytical subtlety and ethical sensitivity ... Masculinities Without Men? provides openings through which to envision gender transformations as mutually constitutive, without denying their respective struggles and integrities. It is here that this book provides a bridge between queer studies, gender studies and feminist studies that is extremely valuable

— TOPIA 15, July 2006

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