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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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Description for Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Paperback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 224. Weight in Grams: 454.
First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency. Illuminating with uncanny prescience Western society's evolving debates on gender and sexuality, Between Men still has much to teach us. With a new foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum emphasizing the work's ongoing relevance, Between ... Read more
First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency. Illuminating with uncanny prescience Western society's evolving debates on gender and sexuality, Between Men still has much to teach us. With a new foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum emphasizing the work's ongoing relevance, Between ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Condition
New
Weight
364g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231176293
SKU
V9780231176293
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About Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) was Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Tendencies; A Dialogue on Love; Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity; The Coherence of Gothic Conventions; and Epistemology of the Closet. Wayne Koestenbaum is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Reviews for Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
One of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies. New York Times Book Review Groundbreaking... Between Men not only put Sedgwick on the map as a queer theorist, it helped to establish the field of queer literary analysis.
Jane Hu Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker Strikingly relevant now.
J. Bryan Lowder Slate Between ... Read more
Jane Hu Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker Strikingly relevant now.
J. Bryan Lowder Slate Between ... Read more