Bryher: Two Novels: Development And Two SelvesUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2000 M12 21 - 336 pages Bryher (born Annie Winifred Ellerman) is perhaps best known today as the lifelong partner of the poet H.D. She was, however, a central figure in modernist and avant-garde cultural experimentation in the early twentieth century; a prolific producer of poetry, novels, autobiography, and criticism; and an intimate and patron of such modernist artists as Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, and Dorothy Richardson. Bryher’s own path-breaking writing has remained largely neglected, long out of print, and inaccessible to those interested in her oeuvre. Now, for the first time since their original publication in the early 1920s, two of Bryher's pioneering works of fictionalized autobiography, titled Development and Two Selves, are reprinted in one volume for a new audience of readers, scholars, and critics. |
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... masculinity has become entrenched : Two selves . Jammed against each other , disjointed and ill- fitting . An obedient Nancy with heavy plaits tied over two ears that answered ' yes , no , yes , no , ' according as the wind blew . A boy ...
... masculinity onto the lesbian body and personality , using case histories to work up their theories of “ confused ” gender identity . Through- out the case histories recorded in his chapter on female inversion in his Sexual Inversion ...
... masculinity , ” the discourses of both lesbianism and transsexuality were conflated , both in the minds of theorists and of lesbians them- selves , until the s when medical and surgical ad- vances made gender reassignment ...
... masculinity and femininity in the characters of the cross - dressing Dr. Matthew Mighty- Grain - O - Salt O'Connor and Robin Vote , who is at times described as a boy , evoke sexological construc- tions of inversion and homosexuality ...
... masculinity to construct lesbian identity. In psychic terms the young homosexual girl seems to have performed a transsexual leap in the re- routing of her desire from father to mother: This girl had entirely repudiated her wish for a ...