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Author:   Jean M. Lutes (Villanova University, Pennsylvania) ,  Jennifer Travis (St John's University, New York)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.660kg
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9781108477536

ISBN 10:   1108477534
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   15 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Gender Criticism in the Age of Trump Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis; Part I. Intimacies: 1. The Price of Freedom: Racialized Female Desire in Early America Anna Mae Duane; 2. Post-Reproductive Female Sexuality and the Early American Novel Marion Rust; 3. The Effeminate Man in Nineteenth-Century America Travis Foster; 4. Rereading Puritan Masculinity through Trans Theory Ivy Schweitzer; 5. 'Unbounded Grief': Black Maternal Sorrow and the Literature of Slavery Shermaine M. Jones; 6. Rethinking Reproductive Freedom through Transpacific Narratives Yu-Fang Cho; 7. Slow Emergency: Life Writing, Dementia, Gender, and Care Rachel Adams; Part II. Aggressions: 8. Sexual Violence and Indigenous Women: Rereading the Archive of Catharine Brown (Cherokee) Theresa Strouth Gaul; 9. Intergenerational Memory and the Making of Indigenous Literary Kinships Susan Bernardin; 10. US Women Writers, Sexual Violence, and Narrative Resistance Catherine Keyser; 11. Gender, Violence, and Accountability in Contemporary Queer Latina Writing Lourdes Torres; 12. The Literature of Racial Uplift and White Feminist Failure Brigitte Fielder; 13. Black Male Studies and Contemporary African American Writing Seulghee Lee; 14. Representations of White Masculinity in Veteran-Authored Iraq War Fiction Hamilton Carroll; 15. What a Doctor Should Look Like: Queer Femme Erasure and the Politics of Dress in the Nineteenth Century Christine 'Xine' Yao; 16. Genderqueer: Literary and Gender Experimentation in Twentieth-Century American Literature Jaime Harker; 17. Fanfiction, Transformative Works, and Feminist Resistance in Digital Culture Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett; 18. Vulnerable States: Immigration and Gender in American Literature Sigrid Anderson; 19. The Mahjar: Arab Women's Literary Culture in America at the Early Twentieth Century Elizabeth Claire Saylor; 20. Disabled Women's Life Writing and the Problem with Recovery Clare Mullaney; 21. Feeling, Memory, and Peoplehood in Contemporary Native Women's Poetry Mark Rifkin.

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'Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of approaches to gender in American literature, this book is a welcome update for scholars of American studies and gender studies ... Highly recommended.' D. E. Magill, Choice Magazine

'Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of approaches to gender in American literature, this book is a welcome update for scholars of American studies and gender studies … Highly recommended.' D. E. Magill, Choice Magazine 'The book provides a fresh take on subjects of broad interest. It is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate courses, graduate students seeking a foundation in the issues that animate scholarship on gender in US literature, and scholars seeking new approaches to familiar subjects.' Aimee Armande Wilson, Legacy

Author Information

Jean M. Lutes is the editor of Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly (2014) and the author of Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1930 (2006). She is professor of English at Villanova University. Jennifer Travis is the author of Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2018); Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture (2005), and the co-editor of Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods in Nineteenth Century American Literature (2018); and Boys Don't Cry: Rethinking Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. (2002). She is professor and chair of the English department at St. John's University.

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