
Gender of Sound
by Anne Carson
Title:
Gender of Sound
Author:
Anne Carson
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
48 pages
Publisher:
Silver Press
ISBN-13:
9781739371791
EAN:
9781739371791
Publication Date:
14/04/2025
Classifications:
Biography and non-fiction prose
Weight (g):
172
Dimensions (mm):
113 x 160 x 6
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
History is filled with unacceptable noises: high pitch, 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 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 voice through Western culture. This enquiry into the way we hear sounds invites reimagining our conceptions of human order, virtue and selfhood.Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.




















