Twelfth Night and gender fluidity

2021 ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Maria Carrig
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Night ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
And Gender

Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space in Three Shakespearean Comedies

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Wai Fong Cheang
Keyword(s):  
Female Characters ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Gender Space ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender And Space

Abstract Laden with sea images, Shakespeare‘s plays dramatise the maritime fantasies of his time. This paper discusses the representation of maritime elements in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice by relating them to gender and space issues. It focuses on Shakespeare‘s creation of maritime space as space of liberty for his female characters.

Secret lives and gender fluidity of people living with HIV in Hyderabad, India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameena Azhar ◽  
Jason Vaudrey ◽  
Sabitha Gandham ◽  
Sean Burr ◽  
Ganesh Oruganti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Living With Hiv

Conceptualizing an Ethology of Masculinities

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrance H. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
Creative Force ◽  
Alternative Conceptualization ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Mind

Rather than a definition or redefinition of masculinity, or masculinities, this article asks what can masculinities do? To explore this question, I map the possibilities that Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of immanence offer masculinities theory. Through a theoretical encounter with Deleuze, Guattari, Spinoza, and Gatens, I seek to open up an alternative conceptualization of masculinities that moves away from morality—transcendent judgments of good or bad—and toward an ethics that privileges our capacities for affecting and being affected. While masculinities studies and gender theory has proposed related notions concerning gender fluidity and resisting gender binaries, this article proposes an alternative through Deleuze’s and Gatens’ readings of Spinoza’s Ethics that radically challenges the mind–body split that informs traditional lineages of Western philosophy. What is at stake for this essay is the ability to conceive of masculinities as creative force with no allegiance to the male body other than its capacity to affect or be affected.

scholarly journals AMBIGUITY OF GENDER IDENTITY IN SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Resneri Daulay
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
And Gender

Gender is often identified with sex and gender, even though they have different concepts. It is associated with men and women who are socially and culturally formed. Understanding about masculine and feminine discourses are formed to identify gender identity which men must behave masculine and women must behave feminine. Taking William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night play as its object, this study aims to see how gender identity displayed and describe the ambiguity of gender identity that is acted by character in the play. The data which were taken from the play were analyzed by relating them to the secondary data taken from references discussing the gender identity depicted in the play. The study concluded that sex, gender and sexual orientation are something that is fluid, not natural and changing and constructed by social conditions. Changes of the identity can be said changing with the form performativity shown, namely by disguise.

Modern Mormonism and Gender Theory in Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Taylor G. Petrey
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
World War ◽  
Gender Essentialism ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

The introduction sets the parameters of the book’s focus on Modern Mormonism in America, which arises after World War II. It further sets this period in the context of gender theory and the history of sexuality, to explore how Mormon approaches to these topics are situated between competing theories of sexual difference in modernity, gender essentialism and gender fluidity.

Fucking the Body, Rewriting the Text: Proto-Queer Embodiment through Textual Drag in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig's Le Corps lesbien (1973)

Paragraph ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-316
Author(s):  
Kayte Stokoe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Interaction ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Lesbian Body ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Romance Narratives

Inspired by Judith Butler's conceptualization of drag as ‘gender parody’, I develop the conceptual frame of ‘textual drag’ in order to define and examine the relationship between parody, satire and gender. I test this frame by reading two seminal feminist works, Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig's Le Corps lesbien (The Lesbian Body) (1973). Both texts lend themselves particularly persuasively to analysis with this frame, as they each use parodic strategies to facilitate proto-queer satirical critiques of reductive gender norms. Orlando deploys an exaggerated nineteenth-century biographical style, which foregrounds the protagonist's gender fluidity and her developing critique of the norms and systems that surround her, while Le Corps lesbien rewrites canonical romance narratives from a lesbian perspective, challenging the heterosexism inherent in these narratives and providing new modes of thinking about gender, desire and sexual interaction.

Gender and Genre

2018 ◽  
pp. 327-341
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Historical Moment

This chapter addresses the prevalence of strong female characters in Shakespeare’s comedies, situating them within recent scholarship on the multidimensional status, agency, and lived experience of Englishwomen of different social classes. In particular, the chapter considers female agency in the comedies through the lens of new materialist approaches to Shakespeare and gender. Attending to such materialist concerns as inheritance, property ownership, and domestic management helps illuminate the specific forms of female authority that are enabled and disabled in the comedies. Analysing selected comedies, notably Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, this chapter argues that the perceived ‘strength’ of many of Shakespeare’s comic heroines is complexly interwoven with the material conditions of their historical moment.

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