Bringing together trans theory with French literary studies, Mat Fournier offers a new understanding of how the gender binary emerged in the modernist era.

Mat Fournier is an associate professor of French at Ithaca College.

Introduction
1. A Case Study: Schizophrenic Splits in La femme qui était en lui
2. Gide's Failed Marriages
3. Cross-Pollination: A Trans Reading of Marcel Proust
4. On Queer Crooks, Abjection, and Moving Sideways: Maurice Sachs's Dysphoric Smuggling
5. Intermittent Miracles: Queer Time and Temporal Dysphoria
Notes
Bibliography
Index