Bodies that Matter: on the Discursive Limits of 'Sex'

Abstract

Bodies that matter -- The lesbian phallus and the morphological imaginary -- Phantasmatic identification and the assumption of sex -- Gender is burning: questions of appropriation and subversion -- "Dangerous crossing": Willa Cather's masculine names -- Passing, queering: Nella Larsen's psychoanalytic challenge -- Arguing with the real -- Critically queer.