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Song, Si Chun. “Manipulating Gender: The Flexibility of Skin in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 39.1 (2013): 123-147. This paper examines the image of the body in Angela Carter’s 1997 novel The Passion of New Eve. This paper argues that Carter rejects essentialist concepts of femininity that view gender as something innate within individuals and only somewhat conditioned by either biology or upbringing. In her novel, Carter problematizes the universal biological categories of women and men by representing a collision between human skin and self. This paper suggests that Carter regards human skin as a flexible material that can be modified depending on one’s view toward skin. By combining the postmodern deconstruction of identity with the flexibility of skin, Carter deconstructs the assumed fixedness of gender identity. Moreover, she emphasizes that the primary source of situating gender difference is not biological difference, but cultural production. (Texas A&M University)