About this title: What is at stake in male homo/heterosexual definition? Grounded in gay theory and politics and offering new paradigms for them, Sedgwick's book explores the consequences for our culture of a radical shift in turn-of-the-century Euro-American discourse: the moment when each person, in addition to having a gender based on the male/female dichotomy, also came to have a sexuality based on the particular dichotomy, homo/hetero. Through readings of the work of Melville, Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Proust, Sedgwick shows how questions of sexual definition are at the heart of every form ...
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Description: Good. 1991 University of California Press Softcover(Trade PB) Edition. Some wear/creasing to cover, otherwise in Excellent Condition! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2008-01-17
ISBN-13:9780520254060ISBN:0520254066
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1990-10-16
ISBN-13:9780520070424ISBN:0520070429
Description: Like New in Like New jacket. Interior is crisp unread with a hint of foxing to upper outer page edges and light edge wear to dustjacket. read more
Binding: trade Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780520078741ISBN:0520078748
Description: Near Very Good. 6 x 9 trade paperback book. White lettering on the pink/illustrated spine with a black and white photo illustrated cover. Epistemology of the Closet is an important contribution to lesbian and gay studies and will force a major rethinking of this new and rapidly growing area of contemporary thought. 258 pages. Pre-title page corner torn. Tight binding. Near Very Good condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780520078741ISBN:0520078748
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Edition: Updated
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780520254060ISBN:0520254066
Description: New. Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the... read more
"Much of Sedgwick's work focused on the concept of binaries, particularly, how the concept of binaries deals with the contrast of hetero/homo sexuality. And while such binaries or oppositions are present in life, things are not always as clear cut. Sedgwick deals with such issues at great length in this work and provides a Foucaultian influenced analysis of the historical/social/personal factors that have shaped the manner in which sexuality has been shaped and identified throughout the ages. One of the reasons, in my opinion, for why Sedgwick's work has become such a significant work in the realm of Queer theory is that it draws a connection with the past, that is, argues that the manner in which sexuality is perceived is a consequence of long standing issues, which shapes what many people want to conceive as a simple hetero/homo binary. In order to frame much of her discussion, Sedgwick looks towards historical and social examples, and of course, she looks at literary references. Works from the likes of James, Wilde, Proust, Melville, among other are looked at as means to examine how sexual issues have been addressed in literature, and how such works represent a greater context that speaks towards factors that shape the manner in which sexuality is defined.
I really enjoyed this book since it presents such an important and useful work of modern Queer theory, but also because it goes beyond the realm of such theory, and towards the idea that the concept of sexuality and its identification is an ever changing issue that is greatly affected by the social and political factors present within any era."
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