Genre/Gender: Introduction

Despite first impressions, the dual theme ‘Genre/Gender’ that provides the main focus for the articles collected in this current edition of Commonwealth, is trickier to negotiate, more refractory to a global approach than might initially appear to be the case. For beyond a shared etymology and the...

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Auteur principal: Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2024
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Despite first impressions, the dual theme ‘Genre/Gender’ that provides the main focus for the articles collected in this current edition of Commonwealth, is trickier to negotiate, more refractory to a global approach than might initially appear to be the case. For beyond a shared etymology and the alliterative effect produced by their contiguity, the concepts of genre and gender are not, after all, such obvious bedfellows. The important issues that each of them raises belong to largely discr...