04288oam 22008774a 450 991025544810332120220418220741.01-4744-2981-50-7486-4908-510.1515/9780748649082(CKB)2670000000203781(EBL)932466(OCoLC)795695196(SSID)ssj0000678953(PQKBManifestationID)11417459(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678953(PQKBWorkID)10729049(PQKB)11457428(MiAaPQ)EBC932466(OCoLC)1103687721(MdBmJHUP)muse73610(ScCtBLL)4caf8cbf-04e0-4ca4-80c4-0331c892f562(DE-B1597)614741(DE-B1597)9780748649082(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33213(OCoLC)1302163822(ScCtBLL)1c2a0057-8141-417e-98b6-0db1f92db0ae(EXLCZ)99267000000020378120120606d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRereading Heterosexuality Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction /Rachel CarrollEdinburgh University Press2012Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2012.©2012.1 online resource (169 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-98063-2 0-7486-3955-1 Includes bibliography (p. [149]-156) and index.COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality; Part One: Revisiting the spinster; Chapter 1 'Becoming my own ghost': spinsterhood and the 'invisibility' of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity; Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal; Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality; Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A. M. Homes's The End of AliceChapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner's Morvern CallarPart Three: Reproducing heterosexuality; Chapter 5 'First one thing and then the other': rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex; Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; Bibliography; IndexPresents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality in selected contemporary British and American novels.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. Key Features: A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Offers close analysis of influential novels by leading contemporary authors, iAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismHeterosexuality in literatureFeminist literary criticismLiteratureContemporary Fictionsexualityqueer theorywomen writersfeminist theorycritical theoryHeteronormativityHeterosexualityHomosexualityHuman sexualityLesbianSpinsterAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Heterosexuality in literature.Feminist literary criticism.823.9209EC 1876rvkCarroll Rachel864805MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910255448103321Rereading heterosexuality1930323UNINA