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Rereading Heterosexuality :

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0748649085

(Number (ISBN

1322980632

(Number (ISBN

1474429815

(Number (ISBN

9780748649082

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9781322980638

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9781474429818

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0748639551

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074864928X

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9780748639557

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9780748649273

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9780748649280

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Rereading Heterosexuality :

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[Book]

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Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction.

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Edinburgh :

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Edinburgh University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012.

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©2012

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1 online resource (169 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index.

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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 Alice.

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Chapter 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.

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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. Key Features. A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoñ 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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Knowledge Unlatched

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JSTOR

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100861

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22573/ctt3431pt

Title

Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction.

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9780748639557

American fiction-- 21st century-- History and criticism.

English fiction-- 21st century-- History and criticism.

Feminist literary criticism.

Heterosexual women.

Heterosexuality in literature.

American fiction.

English fiction.

Feminist literary criticism.

Heterosexual women.

Heterosexuality in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Feminist.

Literary studies : fiction, novelists and prose writers.

Literature : history and criticism.

Literature and literary studies.

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LIT-- 004120

LIT003000

SOC010000

SOC032000

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Carroll, Rachel.

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20200822124818.0

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