Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Sexual Temporalities

   1. Introduction: Sexual Temporalities

      • Ben Davies, Jana Funke

      Pages 1-16

3. Backwards and Forwards: Negotiating History and Futurity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Queer Medieval Time in Hamlet (1921)

      • Bettina Bildhauer

      Pages 19-37

   3. No Present

      • Stephen Guy-Bray

      Pages 38-52

   4. History’s Tears

      • Michael O’Rourke

      Pages 53-69

   5. Jeanette Winterson’s Love Intervention: Rethinking the Future

      • Abigail Rine

      Pages 70-85

4. In and Out of Time: Sexual Practices, Sexual Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Hymenal Exceptionality

      • Ben Davies

      Pages 89-108

   3. Time for the Gift of Dance

      • Sarah Dillon

      Pages 109-131

   4. The Case of Karl M.[artha] Baer: Narrating ‘Uncertain’ Sex

      • Jana Funke

      Pages 132-153

   5. Transgender Temporalities and the UK Gender Recognition Act

      • Emily Grabham

      Pages 154-169

5. (Un)Becoming: Negativity, Death and Extinction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Unbecoming: Queer Negativity/Radical Passivity

      • Judith Halberstam

      Pages 173-194

   3. Difference, Time and Organic Extinction

      • Claire Colebrook

      Pages 195-204

   4. Busy Dying

      • Valerie Rohy

      Pages 205-219

6. Back Matter

   Pages 220-222

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Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time

• culture
• fiction
• gender
• identity
• law
• time

''This volume brings the questions of how time may be thought through sex and gender, and how sex/gender may be fundamentally temporal, to a wonderful range of disciplines and historical moments. It not only extends and broadens recent inquiries into sex and time, but also questions any too-easy binary between queer temporality and straight

temporality. These beautifully written, theoretically complex essays come to us at exactly the moment we need them.''- Elizabeth Freeman, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA

• School of English, University of St Andrews, UK

  Ben Davies

• Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, UK

  Jana Funke

BEN DAVIES PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK.
JANA FUNKE Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, UK.

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