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Jen Calleja
ISBN: 978-1-0682409-2-8
Lucille Clifton
Publication: 6 April 2017
to live successfully as a woman under patriarchy—to submit to the unfairness of gender relations
The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson Crescent Jen CallejaHuman history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category. From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson
