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Christopher Breu
Examines the need to recenter the category of sex - theorizing sex itself as nonbinary - in contemporary studies of gender and sexuality
Gender has largely replaced sex as a…
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Insistence of the Material engages with theories of materiality and biopolitics to provide a radical reinterpretation of experimental fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. It examines this…
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Strips the veneer of the tough guy in modern American culture. The author offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased…
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Noir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect…
Explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction onwards. This book contains twelve case studies that document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with…
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