TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carroll, Rachel
AB  - 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, Zoë Heller'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
ID  - OAPEN ID: 642719
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 795695196
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30783
KW  - Literature
KW  - Contemporary Fiction
KW  - sexuality
KW  - queer theory
KW  - women writers
KW  - feminist theory
KW  - critical theory
KW  - Heteronormativity
KW  - Heterosexuality
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Human sexuality
KW  - Lesbian
KW  - Spinster
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30783/1/642719.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30783/1/642719.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30783/1/642719.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30783/1/642719.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33213
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9781474429818
SN  - 9780748639557
SN  - 9780748649280
SN  - 9780748649273
TI  - Rereading Heterosexuality : Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
ER  - 
