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Title Straight with a twist : queer theory and the subject of heterosexuality / edited by Calvin Thomas ; with the assistance of Joseph O. Aimone and Catherine A.F. MacGillivray
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: Identification, Appropriation, Proliferation / Calvin Thomas -- Pt. 1. "Theory" 1. Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality / Calvin Thomas. 2. In Theory If Not in Practice: Straight Feminism's Lesbian Experience / Jacqueline Foertsch. 3. How I Became a Queer Heterosexual / Clyde Smith. 4. Staging the Self: Queer Theory in the Composition Classroom / Lauren Smith -- Pt. 2. "Literature" 5. "Kissing the Boar": Queer Adonis and Critical Practice / Goran V. Stanivukovic. 6. Robert Audley's Secret: Male Homosocial Desire and "Going Straight" in Lady Audley's Secret / Richard Nemesvari. 7. Cross-Confessing: Updike's Erect Faith in A Month of Sundays / John N. Duvall. 8. The Fascination of the Lesbian Fetish: A Perverse Possibility across the Body of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Queer theory.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Sex in literature.
English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Sexual orientation in literature.
Heterosexuality in literature.
Difference (Psychology)
Sexual orientation.
Heterosexuality.
Group identity.
Homosexuality.
Author Thomas, Calvin, 1956-
MacGillivray, Catherine A. F.
Aimone, Joseph O.
LC no. 99006072
ISBN 0252024958 alkaline paper
0252068130 paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Queer theory and the subject of heterosexuality