Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in <Women Constructing Men demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not...
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Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in <Women Constructing Men demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-discover almost every novel written by a woman, but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of gender and genre.