Sexing the Mind
Author | : Evelyne Ender |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2019-06-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781501734236 |
ISBN-13 | : 1501734237 |
Rating | : 4/5 (237 Downloads) |
Download or read book Sexing the Mind written by Evelyne Ender and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book both brilliant and lucid, Evelyne Ender explores the issue of sexual identity in the fiction, criticism, and psychoanalytic writings of the nineteenth century. She focuses on the figure of the hysteric, which, she says, came to represent a mind haunted by the questioning of gender.