Moby Dick

Posts for this group should focus on issues of gender (masculinity, femininity) as they appear in particular passages of the novel. You could ask yourself the question, for example, “How is a particular passage or event in the novel gendered? Is it betraying a particularly masculine perspective, and why?” You could also discuss perceptions and representations of masculinity, femininity, homosexual (or homosocial) relations, or Melville’s (Ishmael’s) perceptions of feminism and the feminine. You could also discuss passages in the novel that relate nature to gender, work/labor to gender, and so forth.