2022
DOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.17
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Fragmenting and defragmenting gender identity: An analysis of intersex gender identity performance in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex

Abstract: Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel Middlesex is a hermaphrodite coming-of-age narrative often critiqued in the literary field for its depiction of unstable gender identity performance from the intersex perspective. The novel depicts its main protagonist, Cal, as having an unstable gender identity throughout the narrative, performing his gender in ways that conform to extreme heteronormative gender standards. However, little scholarly attention is given to how Cal’s gender identity is fragmented in this unstable portraya… Show more

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