Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
Rachel Carroll
Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. - A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory - Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity - Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning.
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Jahr:
2012
Verlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
169
ISBN 10:
0748649271
ISBN 13:
9780748649273
Datei:
PDF, 624 KB
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english, 2012
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