Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial DesireColumbia University Press, 1992 - 244 Seiten At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian studies. It was an important book because it argued that "sexuality" and "desire" were not a historical phenomenon but carefully managed social constructs. This insight (that actually originated with Michael Foucault) is often viewed as anti-humanist or post-humanist because it argues that men and women are simply the products of patriarchal power relations over which they have no control. By mobilizing Foucault's theories of the history of sexuality Sedgwick re-fashions Feminism and Gay and Lesbian Studies to make it seem as though Feminism and Gay and Lesbian studies are ideally situated to continue those interventions into the history of sexuality begun by Foucault. |
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... pothesize the potential unbrokenness of a continuum between homoso- cial and homosexual — a continuum whose visibility , for men , in our so- ciety , is radically disrupted . It will become clear INTRODUCTION i. Homosocial Desire.
... pothesize the potential unbrokenness of a continuum between homoso- cial and homosexual — a continuum whose visibility , for men , in our so- ciety , is radically disrupted . It will become clear INTRODUCTION i. Homosocial Desire.
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... become clear , in the course of my argument , that my hypothesis of the unbrokenness of this continuum is not a genetic one -- I do not mean to discuss genital homosexual desire as " at the root of ' other forms of male homosociality ...
... become clear , in the course of my argument , that my hypothesis of the unbrokenness of this continuum is not a genetic one -- I do not mean to discuss genital homosexual desire as " at the root of ' other forms of male homosociality ...
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... becomes her sen- suality " ) . MacKinnon concludes , " What defines woman as such is what turns men on . " But what defines " defines " ? That even' node of sexual experience is in some signifying relation to the whole fabric of gender ...
... becomes her sen- suality " ) . MacKinnon concludes , " What defines woman as such is what turns men on . " But what defines " defines " ? That even' node of sexual experience is in some signifying relation to the whole fabric of gender ...
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... becomes legally and medically visible in this century , of lesbianism.17 Radical feminism , on the other hand , in the many different forms I am classing under that head , has been relatively successful in placing sexual- ity in a ...
... becomes legally and medically visible in this century , of lesbianism.17 Radical feminism , on the other hand , in the many different forms I am classing under that head , has been relatively successful in placing sexual- ity in a ...
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... becomes invisi- ble or excessively coarsened and dichotomized in the universalizing struc- turalist view . As feminist readers , then , we seem poised for the moment between reading sex and reading history , at a choice that appears ...
... becomes invisi- ble or excessively coarsened and dichotomized in the universalizing struc- turalist view . As feminist readers , then , we seem poised for the moment between reading sex and reading history , at a choice that appears ...
Inhalt
Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles | 21 |
Swan in Love The Example of Shakespeares Sonnets | 28 |
The Country Wife Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire | 49 |
A Sentimental Journey Sexualism and the Citizen of the World | 67 |
Toward the Gothic Terrorism and Homosexual Panic | 83 |
Murder Incorporated Confessions of a Justified Sinner | 97 |
Tennysons Princess One Bride for Seven Brothers | 118 |
Adam Bede and Henry Esmond Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female | 134 |
Homophobia Misogyny and Capital The Example of Our Mutual Friend | 161 |
Up the Postern Stair Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire | 180 |
Toward the Twentieth Century English Readers of Whitman | 201 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 229 |
241 | |
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