Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-171) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Gendered histories, gendered contexts : Of doctors and dictionaries ; Gender and sexual science ; Rethinking gender(s) ; Gender and language: Wittig's pronouns -- 1. Femininity and feminism : 'Women feel just as men feel': femininity and feeling 1790-1850 ; Femininity between world wars ; Race and femininity in African American writing ; Masculine identification: femininity's disappearing act ; Post-human(ist) femininity? -- Masculinities : 'The manly ideal' ; Dissipation and 'natural character' ; 'The hero as man of letters' ; Of beetles and dandies -- Queering the pitch : Homosexuals, inverts and fairies ; In and out of the closet ; Queer sensibilities, queer theory ; 'Anticommunitarian impulses' -- Readers and spectators : Gender and the public sphere ; 'Interpretive communities' ; Spectateur, spectatrice -- Conclusion.
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