{"product_id":"9781517917586","title":"Nonbinary Jane Austen","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Washington, Chris\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 7 January 2025 by University of Minnesota Press in the United States as part of 'the Forerunners: Ideas First' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 106 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 178 x 9 | 118g\u003cp\u003eA bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, the author theorizes how Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we can supposedly see solidifying in the eighteenth century. Instead, Washington argues, Austen leverages the generic restraints of the novel to write a disguised autofiction in which Austen imagines herself as transgender and works to abolish gender exclusivity altogether. In doing so, she establishes a politics that ushers in a future beyond the cisheteronormative binary, one built on plurality and possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Washington, Chris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52509457383608,"sku":"9781517917586","price":9.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781517917586.jpg?v=1769606988","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781517917586","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}