Sexual dissidence / Jonathan Dollimore.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: x, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmEdition: Second editionDescription: x, 440 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780198827054

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306.766 23 DOL

Contents:

Part 1 An encounter. Part 2. Perspectives Part 3. Subjectivity, transgression, and deviant desire. Part 4. Transgression and its containment. Part 5. Perversion's lost histories. Part 6. Sexual perversion : pathology to politics. Part 7. Beleaguered norms and perverse dynamics. Part 8. Transgressive reinscriptions, early modern and post-modern. Part 9. Beyond sexual difference.

Summary: A wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig.

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"First edition published in 1991"--Title page verso.

A wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, linking writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-424) and indexes.

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