In an era when both Church and State assigned gender roles and defined sexual practices in terms of male/female, lawful/illicit, Sadeâs extensive accounts of sexual activity were categorized as deviant, prurient or provocative. William F. Edmiston explores how Sadeâs unique challenge to sexual, moral and social taboos anticipates the discourses of queer theory. Following an overview of queer theory, Edmiston examines the categories of sex, gender and sexuality as treated in some of Sadeâs best- and lesser-known works. He demonstrates the extent to which Sade erodes the boundaries of sexual opposition through discourses justifying rather than illegitimizing âunlawfulâ sex. The author reveals the coexistence of two competing discourses o...
This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theo...
This paper set out to interrogate Sexual Orientation Identity in select African and African American...
This dissertation examines homo/sexual representation in French and American literature and film fro...
In an era when both Church and State assigned gender roles and defined sexual practices in terms of ...
The Marquis de Sade became famous, or infamous depending on one’s perspective, for the ferocious dep...
The term Queer was first used by Teresa de Lauretis in 1991 to describe constructs that did not adhe...
The following paper has been revised from my 2001 MA thesis, which asked ‘Is it possible to define a...
In his well-known analysis of the evolution of sexuality in society in "Making sexual history", Jeff...
The articulation of a queer epistemology allows us to think about textuality as a place of dramatiz...
“Reading for a Queer Sexual Ethics” examines how reading and writing queer erotic texts might help u...
Late-Victorian and Edwardian British ideology represented male homosexuals as psychically and somati...
My dissertation reorients the prevailing understanding that the gay and lesbian novel came into view...
In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history ...
In the political arena, there are currently two central and competing views of homosexuality. Pro-fa...
Imaginative Resistance, Queer Fiction and the Law develops a novel account of how heteronormative so...
This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theo...
This paper set out to interrogate Sexual Orientation Identity in select African and African American...
This dissertation examines homo/sexual representation in French and American literature and film fro...
In an era when both Church and State assigned gender roles and defined sexual practices in terms of ...
The Marquis de Sade became famous, or infamous depending on one’s perspective, for the ferocious dep...
The term Queer was first used by Teresa de Lauretis in 1991 to describe constructs that did not adhe...
The following paper has been revised from my 2001 MA thesis, which asked ‘Is it possible to define a...
In his well-known analysis of the evolution of sexuality in society in "Making sexual history", Jeff...
The articulation of a queer epistemology allows us to think about textuality as a place of dramatiz...
“Reading for a Queer Sexual Ethics” examines how reading and writing queer erotic texts might help u...
Late-Victorian and Edwardian British ideology represented male homosexuals as psychically and somati...
My dissertation reorients the prevailing understanding that the gay and lesbian novel came into view...
In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history ...
In the political arena, there are currently two central and competing views of homosexuality. Pro-fa...
Imaginative Resistance, Queer Fiction and the Law develops a novel account of how heteronormative so...
This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theo...
This paper set out to interrogate Sexual Orientation Identity in select African and African American...
This dissertation examines homo/sexual representation in French and American literature and film fro...