TY  - GEN
AU  - Carroll,Rachel
TI  - Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
SN  - 9781474429818
PY  - 2012///0404
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literature
KW  - Contemporary Fiction
KW  - sexuality
KW  - queer theory
KW  - women writers
KW  - feminist theory
KW  - critical theory
KW  - Heteronormativity
KW  - Heterosexuality
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Human sexuality
KW  - Lesbian
KW  - Spinster
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30783/1/642719.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30783/1/642719.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30783/1/642719.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33213
ER  -