Towards a Queer Literary History of Gender Identity: Steampunk, Gender Nonconformity, & Victorian Studies

1. TOWARDS A QUEER
LITERARY HISTORY OF
GENDER IDENTITY
STEAMPUNK, GENDER
NONCONFORMITY,
& VICTORIAN STUDIES
Lisa Hager
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8. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism,
a hybrid of machine and organism,
a creature of social reality as well
as
a creature of fiction.
Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.
New York: Routledge, 1991.
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Steampunk seeks to find a
relationship with the world of
gears, steel, and steam that
allows machines to not only co-
inhabit our world but to be
partners in our journey. To be
born, age, and die like we all
must, that is not only true of
humans, plants, rivers,
animals but also of machines.
This may be a crucial
realignment of our
relationship to the world, man-
made and natural.
(emphasis added)

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11. Her airman’s uniform was miles
better than any girls’ clothes.
The boots clomped gloriously as
she stormed to signals practice
or firefighting drills, and the
jacket had a dozen pockets,
including special compartments
for her command whistle and
rigging knife. And Deryn didn’t
mind the constant practice in
useful skills like knife throwing,
swearing, and not showing pain
when punched.
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12. female masculinity actually affords us a
glimpse of how masculinity is
constructed as masculinity. In other
words, female masculinities are framed
as the rejected scraps of dominant
masculinity in order that male
masculinity may appear to be the real
thing
J. Jack Halberstam, Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.lisa.hager@uwc.edu || she, her, hers or they, them, theirs || @lmhager

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17. For a moment, he wondered at all the
adjustments, small and large, that Deryn
must have made in order to carry off her
deception. The way she walked, talked, and
stood, along with every social nuance, all of it
had to be considered every second of every
day. It was incredible to have succeeded at
something so difficult . . . . Not that he
minded seeing her in a jacket and trousers
every day. It was part of the frisson of their
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18. Deryn was in the sort of evening
dress that fashionable young
women-about-town wore . . . Alek
looked down at his own dress, so
formal and old-fashioned with its
fussy bows and bustle. He
suddenly felt frumpy, whereas
Deryn was positively stylish. Her
short hair and slim figure, the core
of her disguise as a midshipman,
no longer looked masculine at all.
lisa.hager@uwc.edu || she, her, hers or they, them, theirs || @lmhager

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20. Lisa Hager
lisa.hager@uwc.edu || @lmhager
she, her, hers or they, them, theirs
http://bit.ly/hager1023