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Annamarie Jagose - Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence - 9780801440014 - V9780801440014
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Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence

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Description for Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.

The field of lesbian studies is often framed in terms of the relation between lesbianism and invisibility. Annamarie Jagose here takes a radical new approach, suggesting that the focus on invisibility and visibility is perhaps not the most productive way of looking at lesbian representability. Jagose argues that the theoretical preoccupation with metaphors of visibility is part of the problem it attempts to remedy. In her account, the regulatory difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality relies less on codes of visual recognition than on a cultural adherence to the force of first order, second order sexual sequence. As Jagose points out, ... Read more

Jagose reads canonical novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Daphne du Maurier, drawing upon their elaboration of sexual sequence. In these innovative readings, tropes such as first and second, origin and outcome, and heterosexuality and homosexuality are shown to reinforce heterosexual precedence. Inconsequence intervenes in current debates in lesbian historiography, taking as its pivotal moment the fin-de-siècle phenomenon of the sexological codification of sexual taxonomies and concluding with a reading of a post-Kinsey pulp sexological text. Throughout, Jagose reminds us that categories of sexual registration are always back-formations, secondary, and belated, not only for those who identify as lesbian but also for all sexual subjects.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801440014
SKU
V9780801440014
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Ref
99-1

About Annamarie Jagose
Annamarie Jagose is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Queer Theory, Lesbian Utopics, and the novels In Translation and Lulu: A Romance.

Reviews for Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence
Jagose draws on Foucault and Barthes to comment on the diffusion of sexual knowledge through the scientific/pornographic with the imperative to represent as uncoded that which is accessible through the photographic lens. By stripping the effects of sequence back to its licensing mechanics, Inconsequence reveals how lesbianism comes to figure as the derivation by which all sexuality is generated.... Jagose's ... Read more

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