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Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction by Rachel Carroll is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Rachel Carroll

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474429818

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction