JOURNAL ARTICLE

Thinking with the Girls with Burning Hinder Parts: Process, Revision, and Uncertainty in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack.

  • Published In: Modern Fiction Studies, 2024, v. 70, n. 3. P. 433 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Schnur, Kate 3 of 3

Abstract

Whereas Djuna Barnes's use of early modern discourses in Ladies Almanack has generally been read as a critique of sexology and psychoanalysis I argue that her use of this cross-temporal knowledge is a part of a cacophonous contradictory plastic and process-oriented understanding of embodied gender reproduction and queer desire. She "thinks out loud" about how women can have sex in the wake of centuries of (male) authors trying to make sense of women's sexual desires. In so doing Barnes defies twentieth-century assumptions of how knowledge happens and what knowledge should do and instead privileges thinking over knowing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modern Fiction Studies. 2024/09, Vol. 70, Issue 3, p433
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0026-7724
  • DOI:10.1353/mfs.2024.a942196
  • Accession Number:180785054
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