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oapen-20.500.12657-307832024-03-25T09:51:41Z Rereading Heterosexuality Carroll, Rachel Literature Contemporary Fiction sexuality queer theory women writers feminist theory critical theory Heteronormativity Heterosexuality Homosexuality Human sexuality Lesbian Spinster thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers 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. - A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory - Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity - Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning 2018-01-01 23:55:55 2020-03-24 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:13:02Z 2020-04-01T13:13:02Z 2012 book 642719 OCN: 795695196 9781474429818 9780748639557 9780748649280 9780748649273 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30783 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 642719.pdf Edinburgh University Press 100861 2a191404-86cd-479e-afc8-ff2b8d611a94 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781474429818 9780748639557 9780748649280 9780748649273 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100861 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
- A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory
- Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity
- Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning
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