Andrea L. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.

"Harris brings a fresh perspective to Woolf and Barnes, introduces readers to Hauser, and builds on critical discussions of Winterson. Few studies cover this much theoretical terrain, and at the same time sustain a unified perspective on a single issue. Harris teases out nearly every imaginable reading of the notion of 'other sexes.'" — Laura Doan, coeditor of Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires"Harris presents very interesting and original readings of the novels she considers. The readings themselves provide unique insights, but are then woven into an overall theme that is also unique. It was the kind of book that I found myself thinking about later and wanting to talk about; in part because the subject matter was intriguing and in part because of Harris's way of developing her topic." — Mary Bloodsworth, Washington State University

• Acknowledgments Preface One(Re)placing the Feminine in Feminist Theory Two"This Difference... This Identity... Was Overcome": Reintegrating Masculine and Feminine in Virginia Woolf's The Waves Three"The Third Sex": Figures of Inversion in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood Four"A Secret Second Tongue": The Enigma of the Feminine in Marianne Hauser's The Talking Room FiveA Feminist Ethics of Love: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body Afterword Notes Works Cited Index