By Claire Colebrook
This important introductory consultant deals a transparent evaluate of the idea that, and challenge, of gender. Claire Colebrook areas the time period in its ancient contexts and strains its improvement from the Enlightenment to the current, prior to relocating directly to the evolution of the idea that of gender from in the a number of stances of feminist feedback, and exploring contemporary advancements in queer idea and post-feminism. shut research of key literary texts, together with Frankenstein, Paradise Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream, exhibits how particular varieties of literature let mirrored image on gender.
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