Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary FictionHeterosexuality 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. |
Contents
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Revisiting the spinster | 23 |
spinsterhood and the invisibility of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters Affinity | 25 |
spinsters scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Hellers Notes on a Scandal | 45 |
Transgressive female heterosexuality | 65 |
feminism queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A M Homess The End of Alice | 67 |
class pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warners Morvern Callar | 91 |
Reproducing heterosexuality | 109 |
rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex | 111 |
cloning heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go | 131 |
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Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary ..., Volume 3 Rachel Carroll No preview available - 2012 |
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