TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karen Love
PY  - 2021
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Lies Before Our Eyes
T2  - The Denial of Gender from the Bible to Shakespeare and Beyond
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098730
N2  - Have we ever really believed in gender? Is there any evidence that we have resisted, rejected, and denied the division of human beings into ‘male’ and ‘female’?  Both our charter narratives and popular media murmur a persistent «no». The  theories of Luce Irigaray, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Roland Barthes, when applied to works as varied as Bible stories, parables, nursery rhymes, Greek myths and drama, Shakespeare’s plays, and contemporary film reveal a new character – the transcengenderist mucosa.   The transcengenderist mucosa – an original metaphor derived from our own deep physical structures: our permeable cellular membranes – deconstructs the equilibrium of binary gender transcends ‘male’ and ‘female’ by being, simultaneously, both and neither. Through the agency of the transcengenderist mucosa, who operates in the liminal space between male and female, we recognize that ‘gender’ does not exist in reality, and that the violence and destruction inherent in the binary definition of gender can be transcended.
KW  - Geschlechtsunterschied (Motiv), Irigaray, Luce, Literatur, Geschichte, English Literature, Gender Studies, Comparative Literary Theory, Bakhtin, Mikhail, Barthes, Roland, Literary Theory
LA  - English
ER  -