The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein.
With the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in 2018 and the upcoming 25th anniversary of Susan Stryker's influential essay "My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage" in 2019, the intersection of Gothic literature with gender studie...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 260 - 273 |
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University of California Press
Jul2018
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