GLOVER, David et Cora KAPLAN, Genders, New York, Routledge (The New Critical Idiom), 2008, 224 p.
ISBN 978-0-415-44244-2
RÉSUMÉ
The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literaryand cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinaryboundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised andupdated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid andilluminating introduction to 'gender' and its implications, including:
- an overview of the critical language and concepts surrounding gender from their historical inception to contemporary debates
- discussions of the major theorists in the field updated and extended coverage of lesbian and queer theory
- a new glossary of terms essential to an understanding of the debate on gender in contemporary theory.
With its impressive breadth and depth of coverage, this volumeoffers not only a comprehensive history of this complex term, but alsoindicates its ongoing presence in literary and cultural theory and thenew directions it is taking.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Introduction 1. Femininity and feminism 2. Masculinities 3. Queering the pitch 4. Readers and spectators Conclusion
BIOGRAPHIE
David Glover is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (1996) and is Editor of the journal New Formations.
Cora Kaplan isProfessor Emerita of English at the University of Southampton andVisiting Professor in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary,University of London. She is the author of Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism (1986) and Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism (2007).