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Fags Hags & Queer Sisters
Stephen (D Maddison
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Description for Fags Hags & Queer Sisters
Hardcover. This account of the importance of women and cross-gender identification in gay male culture offers a range of cultural readings. It takes issue with many of the sacred cows of gay politics, and offers a number of new concepts in lesbian and gay theory. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333776612
SKU
V9780333776612
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Ref
99-15
About Stephen (D Maddison
STEPHEN MADDISON works in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He has published academic work on gay identity and gender, Tennessee Williams, and autobiography and space. His first publication, a journalistic account of gay men's fascination with Barbra Streisand, appeared in Britain's Gay Times in 1992.
Reviews for Fags Hags & Queer Sisters
'Maddison's sharp and detailed account of heterosocial relationships between queer men and straight women - and of their representation on stage, in film, on television, and in contemporary fiction - is a 'must read' for anyone concerned with popular culture and cultural studies.' - Alexander Doty, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania