Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The New Men of 1998

1. Alibis of Essence and Enemies Within: At the Well of Obscenity

2. Passionate Fictions: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness

3. Impressions of the Man: Sacred Countries and the Stone Butch Blues

4. Boys Do Cry: Hilary Swank and the Politics of a Pronoun

5. Postscript: Notes Toward a Radical (Re)Thinking of the Politics of Gender

Notes

References

Index

Promotional Information

This groundbreaking study of both famous and overlooked texts to demonstrate how trans-gendered and trans-sexual masculinity emerged as a unique category in late twentieth-century fiction.

About the Author

Jean Noble teaches in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Victoria.

Reviews

Masculinities Without Men? is a richly theoretical text, explicating intricate socio-cultural phenomena with meticulous finesse. It approaches important literary and filmic texts and key areas of gender and sexuality studies in a thoughtful manner. Its thorough theoretical context makes it an important resource for scholars invested in gender theory. Jean Bobby Noble is clearly in the process of staking out a provocative and cutting-edge terrain within gender studies.
*Canadian Woman Studies, Winter/Spring 2005*

Attentive to the detailed narrative work of prose fiction writers and the interpretive responses they provoke, Noble engages complex masculinities with analytical subtlety and ethical sensitivity ... Masculinities Without Men? provides openings through which to envision gender transformations as mutually constitutive, without denying their respective struggles and integrities. It is here that this book provides a bridge between queer studies, gender studies and feminist studies that is extremely valuable
*TOPIA 15, July 2006*