{"product_id":"masculinities-without-men","title":"Masculinities without Men?","description":"\u003cp\u003eConventional 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 \u003cem\u003eMasculinities without Men?\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking study maps historical similarities in fictional, cultural, and representational practices between the periods of modernism and postmodernism. Noble examines nineteenth-century sexology, drama, and trial transcripts, and late twentieth-century counter-cultural fiction, popular film and documentaries, and theoretical texts. Among the works analyzed closely are texts that have been the focus of lesbian, queer, and feminist theory: Radclyffe Hall’s \u003cem\u003eThe Well of Loneliness,\u003c\/em\u003e Leslie Feinberg’s \u003cem\u003eStone Butch Blues,\u003c\/em\u003e and the film \u003cem\u003eBoys Don’t Cry.\u003c\/em\u003e These, as Noble illustrates, make use of similar types of narratives, structures, and thematic techniques to articulate female masculinity. Also included is an exploration of Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which has never before been studied within this context. Through a critical examination of these texts, Noble demonstrates that trans-gendered and trans-sexual masculinity began to emerge as a unique category in late twentieth-century fiction, distinct from lesbian or female masculinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf interest to scholars and students with an interest in sexuality and gender studies, \u003cem\u003eMasculinities without Men?\u003c\/em\u003e also makes a vital contribution to literary criticism, as well as to cultural and film studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. Bobby Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616312648060,"sku":"9780774809962","price":87.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774809962_e1ed031d-a333-4c8e-9c4a-0f2d355d20cd.jpg?v=1727873073","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/masculinities-without-men","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}