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By Anne Carson
Human 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 Soundcharts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson invites us to listen again, and in doing so to reimagine our conceptions of human order, virtue and selfhood.
Imprint, Spiral House
Series, Portals
Paperback Original
Publication date 14 April 2025
48 pages
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