Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault
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Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history--rather than human nature--that has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored in Sexual Dissidence.
Written by a leading critic in gender studies, this wide-ranging study returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0198112696
ISBN13:9780198112693
Release Date:September 1991
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:400 Pages
Weight:1.28 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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Sexuality uncovered
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
With this book Dollimore analyzes sexuality in terms of the differing conceptions of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde. Where Wilde saw surface and performance, Gide saw a representation of essential self. Taking Wilde's side in the argument, Dollimore uses this analysis to deconstruct sexuality as it appears in early texts.
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