Modernism, Metaphysics, And Sexuality

"Without question, modernist texts have been captivated by what can be known or, more aptly, what cannot be known. This position was foundational to one of the pivotal readings of modernism. Simultaneously, economic, legal, and political shifts that occurred during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced real material changes pertaining to the status of women. Thus, as many others have adeptly argued, modernism is also a crisis in gender. Modernism, Metaphysics, and Sexuality suggests that these narratives, the rethinking of what constitutes truth and the rethinking of gender, are intertwined. Interpreting modernism through Luce Irigaray's re-reading of Western metaphysics, Debrah Raschke suggests that where there is a crisis in knowing there is also a crisis in the sex/gender system."--BOOK JACKET.