Thomas Pynchon, sex, and gender / edited by Ali Chetwynd, Joanna Freer, and Georgios Maragos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; A Chronological Bibliography of Relevant Published Research to 2017; Section 1. Origins; When Pynchon Was a Boys' Club: V. and Midcentury Mystifications of Gender; Section 2. Gender Roles; From Hard Boiled to Over Easy: Reimagining the Noir Detective in Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge; Of "Maidens" and Towers: Oedipa Maas, Maxine Tarnow, and the Possibility of Resistance kostas kaltsas; Between Sangha and Sex Work: The Karmic Middle Path of Vineland's Female Characters; Section 3. Sex Writing

"Allons Enfants!" Pynchon's PornographiesQueer Sex, Queer Text: S / M in Gravity's Rainbow; What Would Charlie Do? Narrowing the Possibilities of a Pornographic Redemption in Thomas Pynchon's Novels; Section 4. Violence: Gendered and Sexualized; "This Set of Holes, Pleasantly Framed": Pynchon the Competent Pornographer and the Female Conduit; Representations of Sexualized Children and Child Abuse in Thomas Pynchon's Fiction simon de bourcier; "Our Women Are Free": Slavery, Gender, and Representational Bias in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon; Section 5. Family / Values

Pynchon and Gender: A View from the Typescript of V."Homer Is My Role Model": Father- Schlemihls, Sentimental Families, and Pynchon's Affinities with The Simpsons; Conservatism as Radicalism: Family and Antifeminism in Vineland; Choice or Life? Deliberations on Motherhood in Late- Period Pynchon; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

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