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Death becomes her : modernism, femininity, and the erotics of death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project argues that modernist authors employ transgressive sexual desires both to disrupt and regulate femininity. Early twentieth-century cultural ...
Postwar masculine identity in Ann Bannon's I am a woman
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Postwar men experienced an identity destabilization that was unique to the era. Lesbian pulp fiction provided the opportunity for heterosexual men to "try on" alternate identities while simultaneously asserting their ...
"It is Deirdre you mourn for" : the third-person narration of Deirdre McCloskey's Crossing : a memoir
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This thesis uses Deirdre McCloskey's memoir Crossing (1999) as a case study to explore the relationship between personal and cultural narratives of transsexuality. McCloskey's work is noteworthy for being the only trans ...