Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonds in Gay Culture

by Maddison, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780312236373
• ISBN10: 0312236379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters is a provocative account of the importance of women and cross-gender identification in "gay" male culture. It offers a range of cultural readings from Tennessee William's classic A Streetcar Named Desire and Forster's 'gay' novel Maurice through Pulp Fiction , queer lifestyle magazines, Roseanne , slash fan fiction, and Jarman's Edward II to Almodovar's camp classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Theoretically sophisticated, yet passionate, accessible and opinionated, Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters takes issue with many of the sacred cows of contemporary gay politics, and offers a number of new concepts in lesbian and gay theory.

Author Biography

Stephen Maddison is Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of East London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(181)
Fags, female icons and Stonewall	1	(8)
Fags, hags and queer sistership	9	(5)
From Pathology to Gender Dissent: Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire	14	(50)
Streetcar: Perversion or great American (queer) art?	17	(26)
Inversion: Maurice and unrequited desire	20	(8)
Coming out: Stonewall and gay politics	28	(3)
A Streetcar Named Desire: a gay play?	31	(6)
From gender to libido (and back again?)	37	(6)
Streetcar: a play with gender?	43	(21)
Stanley Kowalski: Polack, stud, husband	44	(5)
Miss DuBois: queer defiance?	49	(15)
Heterosocial Tendencies	64	(38)
A case of sexuality or gender? Feminism and queer theory	64	(8)
Homosocial regimes, male power and not getting fucked	72	(4)
Pulp Fiction: fucking butch	76	(6)
Homosocial dissent, female bonding	82	(5)
Mapping heterosocial bonds	87	(7)
Straight talking: get some Attitude	94	(3)
Slash fantasies/heterosocial bonds	97	(5)
Roseanne: Domestic Goddess as Heterosocial Heroine?	102	(36)
Roseanne and political credibility	106	(5)
Roseanne and homosociality: the queer challenge	111	(13)
`I now pronounce you men': Queer marriage and the domestic goddess	124	(8)
Mary-come-lately or gay goddess?	132	(6)
Pedro Almodovar and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the Heterosocial Spectator and Misogyny	138	(44)
A Case of public or private?	139	(4)
Liberal titillation and the regime of the couple	143	(5)
Queer opportunities	148	(5)
Women on the verge of queer sistership?	153	(4)
The woman's film as gay film?	157	(5)
Edward II: queer homosociality?	162	(7)
Hysteria and heterosocial dissent	169	(13)
Conclusion	182	(16)
Fag Hag: a cautionary tale?	182	(7)
Fags, hags and gender dissent	189	(9)
Notes	198	(19)
Index	217