Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture

Examining modern art, literature, film, theory and the law, Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture challenges the division of straight and queer temporalities. It problematises reductive understandings of straight and queer time, moving beyond the equation of straight time with heterosexuality and queer time with non-normative sexuality. The collection shows how queer subjects can be said to participate in straight time and explores the queer temporalities of heterosexual existence. Investigating innovative uses of time, sexual practices and desire, it demonstrates how queer and straight time intersect in complex and sometimes unexpected ways, calling for a radical rethinking of these categories. Exploring the time of dance, a 1921 film version of Hamlet, the hymen, intersex and transgender discourse, lyrical history and works by contemporary writers like Ian McEwan and Jeanette Winterson, this collection opens up new ways of thinking time, sex and gender.

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"This volume brings the questions of how time may be thought through sex and gender, and how sex/gender may be fundamentally temporal, to a wonderful range of disciplines and historical moments. It not only extends and broadens recent inquiries into sex and time, but also questions any too-easy binary between queer temporality and straight temporality. These beautifully written, theoretically complex essays come to us at exactly the moment we need them."- Elizabeth Freeman, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA

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BEN DAVIES PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK. JANA FUNKE Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, UK.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Sexual Temporalities, B.Davies & J.Funke PART I: BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS: NEGOTIATING HISTORY AND FUTURITY Queer Medieval Time in Hamlet (1921); B.Bildhauer No Present; S.Guy-Bray History's Tears; M.O'Rourke Jeanette Winterson's Love Intervention: Rethinking the Future; A.Rine PART II: IN AND OUT OF TIME: SEXUAL PRACTICES, SEXUAL IDENTITIES Hymenal Exceptionality; B.Davies Time for the Gift of Dance; S.Dillon The Case of Karl M.[artha] Baer: Narrating 'Uncertain' Sex; J.Funke Transgender Temporalities and the UK Gender Recognition Act; E.Grabham PART III: (UN)BECOMING: NEGATIVITY, DEATH AND EXTINCTION Unbecoming: Queer Negativity/Radical Passivity; J.Halberstam Difference, Time and Organic Extinction; C.Colebrook Busy Dying; V.Rohy Index

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