Gertrude Stein's Transmasculinity

Chris Coffman is Professor in the Department of English, and Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies Program, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, US. She is the author of Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film (Wesleyan University Press, 2006).

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroduction: Gertrude Stein’s TransmasculinitySeeing Stein’s MasculinityReading Stein’s Genders: Multiple Identifications in the 1900sReading Stein’s Genders: Transmasculine Signification in the 1910s and 1920sVisual Economies of Queer Desire in The Autobiography of Alice B. ToklasPicasso’s Stein / Stein’s Picasso: Cubist Perspective / Masculine Homosociality‘Torquere’: Stein’s and Hemingway’s Queer RelationalityStein, Van Vechten, and Modernism’s Queer GazeCoda: Gertrude Stein IconBibliographyIndex

Gertrude Stein’s Masculinity is a distinctive contribution to modernist scholarship and to queer studies. Through the concept of 'transmasculinity', Coffman shows that Stein criticism has consistently missed something very important, something that changes how we conceive Stein’s identity, importance, and place among male modernist peers.