Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction

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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction

About this book

Heterosexuality 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.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2012
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9781474429818
Subtopic
Feminist Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality
  6. Part One: Revisiting the spinster
  7. Chapter 1 ‘Becoming my own ghost’: spinsterhood and the ‘invisibility’ of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters’ Affinity
  8. Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in ZoĂ« Heller’s Notes on a Scandal
  9. Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality
  10. Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A. M. Homes’s The End of Alice
  11. Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar
  12. Part Three: Reproducing heterosexuality
  13. Chapter 5 ‘First one thing and then the other’: rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex
  14. Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index

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