Margaret Breen, Editor
So much of great literature centers on explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. What does it mean to be a proper man or woman; what if one cannot be properly called either? Should one wield one’s sexual power politically? What is the relation between law, divine or secular, and sexuality? What does it mean to fail at doing gender? These are just some of the questions that this volume examines. Essays consider a range of texts, including Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sharon Dennis Wyeth’s Tomboy Trouble in light of issues of gender, sex, and sexuality, and their interplay.
