Reflecting steampunk’s push to occupy the boundaries between binaries, Deryn’s gender cannot be easily classified as feminine or masculine; instead, she occupies what we might call a genderqueer or gender-fluid space in which neither binary label can suffice.

1. AN ALTERNATE
HISTORY OF GENDER
IDENTITY
NEO-VICTORIAN GENDER
NONCONFORMITY IN SCOTT
WESTERFELD'S LEVIATHAN TRILOGY
Lisa Hager
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Pronouns: she, her, hers or they, them, theirs

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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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9. Lisa Hager
lisa.hager@uwc.edu
@lmhager || #incs2015
she, her, hers or they, them, theirs