The comparison of Sylvia Beach and Penny both as taking on a masculine role is brilliant! Well done Devyn on using examples that both portray the hands of the women as masculine. Women are meant to be doing ‘dainty’ things according to society, so writing the female characters as doing ‘male-oriented’ tasks shows how they are swapping gender roles. Additionally, James Joyce and Raj swap gender roles because they are written/described as effeminant. Though some of these characters are not necessarily homosexual, they are entering into territories of the opposite sex due their physicality or mannerisms.