Charlotte Charke’s Gun: Queering Material Culture and Gender Performance

ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830

卷:7

Jade Higa¹ 

[1] University of Hawaii, Manoa;

关键词: Charlotte Charke;    Gender performance;    Queer;    Material culture;    Sexuality studies;    Eighteenth-century;   

DOI  :  10.5038/2157-7129.7.1.1153

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This essay juxtaposes readings of material culture and gender performance in Charlotte Charke’s Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (1755). It argues that the transient relationship Charke has to the objects in her life mirrors the fluidity of her gender. The essay ultimately uses Charke’s narrative as a case study in a questioning of a binarized gender matrix. The thesis suggest that, though we lack language to fully describe it, characters and historical figures like Charke move beyond and explode gender binaries.

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