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| English 315.012: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature Gender Trouble: Problems in Authenticity and Sex Cross-dressing and androgyny have long been tactics both for economic or social liberation but also for an escape from the fixity of the categories of gender. However, those who are exposed as having "passed" as the other gender have also long been severely punished by society. What is the social and political import of matching one's appearance to one's physical gender? What about artists and writers who have used nom de plumes belonging to the opposite gender? Is there such a thing as a "male" or "female" mind? In order to explore these questions, we will analyze texts by authors including William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Jeffrey Eugenides, Marjorie Garber, and Judith Butler, and films including "Boys Don't Cry," "The Crying Game," "Queen Christina," and "Some Like it Hot." |
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