Examines literary depictions of ampampquotmannishampampquot pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.Who is taken seriously as an artist What does gender have to do with it Is there a relationship between artistic creation and physical procreation In Masculine Pregnancies Aimee Armande Wilson argues that modernist writers used depictions of ampampquotmannishampampquot pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to answer these questions. The book places ampampquotmasculine pregnanciesampampquot in works by Djuna Barnes Willa Cather William Faulkner and Ezra Pound in the context of interwar debates about eugenics immigration midwifery and sexology in order to redefine the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism. Attending to recent developments in queer theory Wilson challenges the critical assumption that figures of masculine pregnancy necessarily reinforce oppressive norms.