LEADER 04290oam 22008774a 450 001 996552367603316 005 20220418220741.0 010 $a1-4744-2981-5 010 $a0-7486-4908-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748649082 035 $a(CKB)2670000000203781 035 $a(EBL)932466 035 $a(OCoLC)795695196 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000678953 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11417459 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678953 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10729049 035 $a(PQKB)11457428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC932466 035 $a(OCoLC)1103687721 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73610 035 $a(ScCtBLL)4caf8cbf-04e0-4ca4-80c4-0331c892f562 035 $a(DE-B1597)614741 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748649082 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33213 035 $a(OCoLC)1302163822 035 $a(ScCtBLL)1c2a0057-8141-417e-98b6-0db1f92db0ae 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000203781 100 $a20120606d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRereading Heterosexuality $eFeminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction /$fRachel Carroll 210 $cEdinburgh University Press$d2012 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2012. 210 4$dİ2012. 215 $a1 online resource (169 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-98063-2 311 $a0-7486-3955-1 320 $aIncludes bibliography (p. [149]-156) and index. 327 $aCOVER; 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 Zoe? 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 Alice 327 $aChapter 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; Index 330 $aPresents 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, i 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHeterosexuality in literature 606 $aFeminist literary criticism 610 $aLiterature 610 $aContemporary Fiction 610 $asexuality 610 $aqueer theory 610 $awomen writers 610 $afeminist theory 610 $acritical theory 610 $aHeteronormativity 610 $aHeterosexuality 610 $aHomosexuality 610 $aHuman sexuality 610 $aLesbian 610 $aSpinster 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHeterosexuality in literature. 615 0$aFeminist literary criticism. 676 $a823.9209 686 $aEC 1876$2rvk 700 $aCarroll$b Rachel$0864805 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552367603316 996 $aRereading heterosexuality$91930323 997 $aUNISA