Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture

BEN DAVIES PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK.JANA FUNKE Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, UK.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Sexual Temporalities, B.Davies & J.Funke PART I: BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS: NEGOTIATING HISTORY AND FUTURITY Queer Medieval Time in Hamlet (1921); B.Bildhauer No Present; S.Guy-Bray History's Tears; M.O'Rourke Jeanette Winterson's Love Intervention: Rethinking the Future; A.Rine  PART II: IN AND OUT OF TIME: SEXUAL PRACTICES, SEXUAL IDENTITIES Hymenal Exceptionality; B.Davies Time for the Gift of Dance; S.Dillon The Case of Karl M.[artha] Baer: Narrating 'Uncertain' Sex; J.Funke Transgender Temporalities and the UK Gender Recognition Act; E.Grabham PART III: (UN)BECOMING: NEGATIVITY, DEATH AND EXTINCTION Unbecoming: Queer Negativity/Radical Passivity; J.Halberstam Difference, Time and Organic Extinction; C .Colebrook Busy Dying; V.Rohy Index

"This volume brings the questions of how time may be thought through sex and gender, and how sex/gender may be fundamentally temporal, to a wonderful range of disciplines and historical moments. It not only extends and broadens recent inquiries into sex and time, but also questions any too-easy binary between queer temporality and straight temporality. These beautifully written, theoretically complex essays come to us at exactly the moment we need them."- Elizabeth Freeman, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA