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Through application of the contemporary term transmasculinity and the more historical stone butch, the author questions the critical tendency to perceive American writer Willa Cather only as lesbian while ignoring or undertheorizing a transgender longing at play in her fiction, short stories, and letters. While biographical evidence must not be approached as simply coterminous with literary production, as literature often exceeds or resists such alignments, Cather's letters in particular suggest a strong identification with her male fictional alliances. Analysis of her letters alongside two of her most treasured, and disparaged, novels, One of Ours (1922) and The Professor's House (1925), conveys Cather's wish for an idealized masculinity, both for herself and for Western culture, that would survive two coeval historical processes and events: the closing of the American frontier and the First World War. Through what the author calls a stone butch “armature,” she and her characters retained masculine dignity despite historical foreclosure of Cather's manly ideal, Winston Churchill's Great Man, who was for her the artistic and intellectual casualty of the period. Cather expressed the peculiar nostalgic longing present in stone butch, and in the explosion of new forms of transmasculinity in the present. This suggests that historical transgender styles don't disappear entirely, even as new categories emerge.
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Au cours des deux dernières décennies, la ville de Madrid a été marquée par la fierté, le féminisme et la mondialisation, mais aussi par les vestiges du machisme nourri pendant les longues années de la dictature de Franco. Crossing through Chueca examine comment la culture littéraire lesbienne s'inscrit dans ce mélange depuis la fin du mouvement contre-culturel la movida madrileña en 1988 jusqu'à la marche sur le mariage gay en 2005. Jill Robbins parcourt les différents espaces littéraires de la ville associés à la culture queer, en particulier le quartier gay de Chueca, révélant à quel point il est le produit d’interrelations – un site sillonné par une multiplicité de sujets qui le constituent comme un espace queer à travers la négociation de leurs identités sexuelles, raciales, de genre et de classe. Robbins reconnaît Chueca comme un espace politique également, un refuge contre l'homophobie. Elle montre également comment les pratiques spatiales et littéraires de Chueca sont liées aux enjeux économiques. En examinant comment les identités sexuelles des femmes sont devenues visibles dans et à travers le phénomène Chueca, ce travail est un exemple révélateur d'études queer transnationales au sein du débat occidental plus large sur le genre et la sexualité.
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"Gender" has, in recent years, become one of the busiest terms in literary and cultural theory, as well as being one of the most contested. David Glover and Cora Kaplan chart the main lines of contemporary debate surrounding gender in a guide which:* presents a history of the term, from the sexology of psychoanalysis of the 1960s to its current usage within the interdisciplinary field of gender studies* looks at the major perspectives on gender from second-wave feminist writers and critics* examines new work on masculinity in literary and cultural studies* assesses how the creation of new queer and gendered identities has impacted the study of literature* surveys empirical and theoretical work on readership and spectatorship, looking in detail at modes of fantasy, cultural consumption, reader response and fan cultures.