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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... need can all be aligned and centered . I intended Between Men very pointedly as a complicating , antisepara- tist , and antihomophobic contribution to a feminist movement with which , nonetheless , I identified fairly unproblematically ...
... need can all be aligned and centered . I intended Between Men very pointedly as a complicating , antisepara- tist , and antihomophobic contribution to a feminist movement with which , nonetheless , I identified fairly unproblematically ...
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... need not be pointedly dichotomized as against " homosex- ual " ; it can intelligibly denominate the entire continuum . The apparent simplicity — the unity — of the continuum between " women loving women " and " women promoting the ...
... need not be pointedly dichotomized as against " homosex- ual " ; it can intelligibly denominate the entire continuum . The apparent simplicity — the unity — of the continuum between " women loving women " and " women promoting the ...
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... needs to make use of what- ever forms of analysis are most potent for describing historically variable power asymmetries , such as those of class and race , as well as gender . But in conjunction with that , an analysis of ...
... needs to make use of what- ever forms of analysis are most potent for describing historically variable power asymmetries , such as those of class and race , as well as gender . But in conjunction with that , an analysis of ...
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... need more — more different , more complicated , more diachronically apt , more off - centered — more daring and prehensile applications of our present understanding of what it may mean for one thing to signify another . iii . Sex or ...
... need more — more different , more complicated , more diachronically apt , more off - centered — more daring and prehensile applications of our present understanding of what it may mean for one thing to signify another . iii . Sex or ...
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... need to be reasserted in newly applicable formulations . At the same time , the violences done to a historical argument by em- bodying it in a series of readings of works of literature are probably even more numerous and damaging ...
... need to be reasserted in newly applicable formulations . At the same time , the violences done to a historical argument by em- bodying it in a series of readings of works of literature are probably even more numerous and damaging ...
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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