Materializing Gender Early Modern English Literature Culture Will… 9780521858519

Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)Will Fisher\nCambridge University Press\nHardcover\nUnused and unread, minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffing or minor creasing. Stamped 'damaged' by publisher to a non-text page.\nEAN: 9780521858519\nPublished 06/07/2006\nLanguage: English\nThrough examining some of the everyday items that helped establish a person's masculinity or femininity, this book offers a new analysis of gender identity in early modern English literature and culture. Individual chapters focus on items such as codpieces, handkerchiefs, beards, and hair. Fisher argues that these seemingly peripheral parts were in fact constitutive, and consequently that early modern gender was materialized through a relatively wide range of parts or features, and that it was also often conceptualized as being malleable. The book deliberately brings together sexual characteristics (beard growth and.