TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carroll,Rachel
TI  - Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
SN  - 9780748639557
PY  - 2012///
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Contemporary Fiction
KW  - critical theory
KW  - feminist theory
KW  - Heteronormativity
KW  - Heterosexuality
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Human sexuality
KW  - Lesbian
KW  - Literature
KW  - queer theory
KW  - sexuality
KW  - Spinster
KW  - women writers
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, Zo H͡eller'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  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30783
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/2fa0bd4c-4bba-43a2-a050-67f30823d20f/642719.pdf
ER  -