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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... seemed to characterize its address , in particular , to many of the women queer readers whose incredulous desire it has also solicited . In fact Between Men has evoked rage ( perhaps among other responses ) on Preface ix.
... seemed to characterize its address , in particular , to many of the women queer readers whose incredulous desire it has also solicited . In fact Between Men has evoked rage ( perhaps among other responses ) on Preface ix.
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... fact , it is applied to such activities as " male bonding , " which may , as in our society , be characterized by intense hom- ophobia , fear and hatred of homosexuality . To draw the " homosocial " back into the orbit of " desire ...
... fact , it is applied to such activities as " male bonding , " which may , as in our society , be characterized by intense hom- ophobia , fear and hatred of homosexuality . To draw the " homosocial " back into the orbit of " desire ...
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... fact , they embody Heidi Hartmann's definition of patriarchy : " relations between men , which have a material base , and which , though hierarchical , establish or create interdependence and solidarity among men that enable them to ...
... fact , they embody Heidi Hartmann's definition of patriarchy : " relations between men , which have a material base , and which , though hierarchical , establish or create interdependence and solidarity among men that enable them to ...
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... fact , for the Greeks , the continuum between " men loving men " and " men promoting the interests of men " appears to have been quite seamless . It is as if , in our terms , there were no perceived discontinuity between the male bonds ...
... fact , for the Greeks , the continuum between " men loving men " and " men promoting the interests of men " appears to have been quite seamless . It is as if , in our terms , there were no perceived discontinuity between the male bonds ...
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... fact , sexual . Vulnerability means the appearance / reality of easy sexual access ; passivity means receptivity and disabled resistance . . . ; softness means pregnability by something hard . . . . Woman's infantilization evokes ...
... fact , sexual . Vulnerability means the appearance / reality of easy sexual access ; passivity means receptivity and disabled resistance . . . ; softness means pregnability by something hard . . . . Woman's infantilization evokes ...
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 |
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