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9780312236373

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

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    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

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