Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
Apr 2012 · Edinburgh University Press
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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.
About the author
Rachel Carroll is Reader in English at Teesside University, UK. She is author of Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction(Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and editor of Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities(Continuum, 2009) and Litpop: Writing and Popular Music(with Adam Hansen, Ashgate, 2014). Her research has been published in journals including Adaptation, Contemporary Women's Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Textual Practiceand Women: a cultural review.
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