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Question 1

Robert browning poems

Answer 1

• men would narrate because it was always a dramatic monologues, no female voice In poem
• sensation fiction was all the rage
• basic narrative of his poems were scary/dramatic poems one was about a women being killed by her lover who was unhappy with her husband. The lover killed believing he was doing her a favor

Question 2

Bidart’s “queer”

Answer 2

basic narrative was about the struggle of coming out of the closet. how tough it was being gay and not being able to come out. he soon came out as soon as his parents died

• themes: how it was tough it is being a queer and how he didn’t disappoint his family
• involved veilities of self ensure relevance

Question 3

Mikobe

Answer 3

basic narrative- she speaks about her life was always different. She was part boy part girl. her struggle of how at first it wasn’t too bad when she was young because other saw it as a phase until she got older. Mikobe’s mother would tell her that she wasn’t a lady or ready to become a wife. She felt inferior like she wasn’t anything and speaks about the trouble she went through
-it was a big part of her slam poem saying she was more than just a hashtag, that they are humans too

Question 4

Cisgenderism

Answer 4

woeful death of published trans folks work

• specialized athologies
• very seldom “mainstreamed” into other publications

Question 5

queer theory

Answer 5

basics: builds on feminist challenges that gender is the basis for an essential self
- builds on LG challenges of the social construction of natural and unnatural sexual acts and identities

Question 6

critiques queer theory debunks

Answer 6

• stable assumption of sex, gender, and sexualities

- primary assumption of sex, gender, and sexualities

Question 7

female authored texts- psedonyms

Answer 7

women would publish books with male names to actually sell and take serious. Many women would make up names with their own initials
ex: Louisa may Alcott– AM barnard
Anne Bronte — Acton Bell
charlotte bronte–currier bell

Question 8

miss hale’s “ the wife”

Answer 8

Dickens and Lefam rejected publication in household in its original form

• wife becomes physically ill after marriage
• 1921 attempt to extend provision to women, fails over concern that publicity would make women aware of female homosexuality

Question 9

freedman and D’ Emilio

Answer 9

women romantic friendships were physical and emotional affection on normative
- men's relationship were usually physical intimacy between middle class men were normative also men were more comfortable describing their physical intimacy