Sexualizing Power in Naturalism

by Irene Gammel

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This book sheds light on the function of female sexuality in a predominantly male genre: naturalist fiction. Gammel reveals that naturalism is frequently implicated in the very power structures it critiques. Reading European and North American naturalism through the lens of feminist and Foucaultian theories of power, Gammel argues that twentieth-century naturalism increasingly deconstructs itself in its depiction of sexuality, inevitably exposing the genre's internal ideological contradictions. The book makes a special contribution to Canadian studies.

About the Author

Irene Gammel

IRENE GAMMEL holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, where she is also the Director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Center dedicated to the study of modern women writers. The author and editor of 13 books, Gammel is the curator of the exhibit Anne of Green Gables: A Literary Icon at 100. Together with Suzanne Zelazo she has co-edited Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto by Florine Stettheimer. Gammel divides her time between Toronto and Sackville, New Brunswick.

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