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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... gives of their contemporaneity— have been dead for a century . They function in the book as objects of an almost theologically speculative meditation , rather than as evidence of lives and communities actually , presently inhabited ...
... gives of their contemporaneity— have been dead for a century . They function in the book as objects of an almost theologically speculative meditation , rather than as evidence of lives and communities actually , presently inhabited ...
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... give to the entire continuum . I have chosen the word " desire " rather than " love " to mark the erotic emphasis because , in literary critical and related discourse , " love " is more easily used to name a particular emotion , and ...
... give to the entire continuum . I have chosen the word " desire " rather than " love " to mark the erotic emphasis because , in literary critical and related discourse , " love " is more easily used to name a particular emotion , and ...
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... give jobs to , or otherwise promote the interests of other women , are pursuing congruent and closely related activities . Thus the adjective " homosocial " as applied to women's bonds ( by , for example , historian Carroll Smith ...
... give jobs to , or otherwise promote the interests of other women , are pursuing congruent and closely related activities . Thus the adjective " homosocial " as applied to women's bonds ( by , for example , historian Carroll Smith ...
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... give a strong counterexample in classical Greece . Male homosexuality , according to Dover's evidence , was a widespread , licit , and very influen- tial part of the culture . Highly structured along lines of class , and within the ...
... give a strong counterexample in classical Greece . Male homosexuality , according to Dover's evidence , was a widespread , licit , and very influen- tial part of the culture . Highly structured along lines of class , and within the ...
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... give to the brute fact that everyone gets categorized as either female or male ; but they are alike in seeing all human culture , language , and life as struc- tured in the first place — structured radically , transhistorically , and ...
... give to the brute fact that everyone gets categorized as either female or male ; but they are alike in seeing all human culture , language , and life as struc- tured in the first place — structured radically , transhistorically , and ...
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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