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- catalog abstract ""Why is so much gay male culture obsessed with women? Why do men who desire other men spend so much time and energy adoring women, bonding with women? Why is it that women seem to develop special relationships with gay men? Why is it so fabulous to be a screaming queen? In this book Stephen Maddison offers answers to these questions by looking in detail at a range of cultural texts from Tennessee Williams's classic play 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. Along the way he looks at the kinds of iconic divas, dames, bitches, studs and bad boys who have formed the gender archetypes that shape gay culture. 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. Taking its historical cue from turn-of-the-century notions of inversion, the book uses feminist and queer work on gender to argue that third sex models of homosexuality continue to inform gay culture in the U.S. and Britain. Maddison offers a radical new reading of Eve Sedgwick's work on homosocial male bonds, and develops new terms for understanding the cultural importance of relationships between gay men and women."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11720180.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Why is so much gay male culture obsessed with women? Why do men who desire other men spend so much time and energy adoring women, bonding with women? Why is it that women seem to develop special relationships with gay men? Why is it so fabulous to be a screaming queen? In this book Stephen Maddison offers answers to these questions by looking in detail at a range of cultural texts from Tennessee Williams's classic play 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. Along the way he looks at the kinds of iconic divas, dames, bitches, studs and bad boys who have formed the gender archetypes that shape gay culture. 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. Taking its historical cue from turn-of-the-century notions of inversion, the book uses feminist and queer work on gender to argue that third sex models of homosexuality continue to inform gay culture in the U.S. and Britain. Maddison offers a radical new reading of Eve Sedgwick's work on homosocial male bonds, and develops new terms for understanding the cultural importance of relationships between gay men and women."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-216) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- From pathology to gender dissent: Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire -- Heterosocial tendencies -- Roseanne: domestic goddess as heterosocial heroine? -- Pedro Almodovar and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the heterosocial spectator and misogyny -- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "x, 221 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312236352".
- catalog identifier "0312236379 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press ,".
- catalog subject "306.76/62 21".
- catalog subject "Feminist theory.".
- catalog subject "Gay culture.".
- catalog subject "Gay men Identity.".
- catalog subject "Gay men Relations with heterosexual women.".
- catalog subject "Gay men in literature.".
- catalog subject "Gays in popular culture.".
- catalog subject "HQ76 .M14 2000".
- catalog subject "Male homosexuality Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women in popular culture.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- From pathology to gender dissent: Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire -- Heterosocial tendencies -- Roseanne: domestic goddess as heterosocial heroine? -- Pedro Almodovar and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the heterosocial spectator and misogyny -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Fags, hags, and queer sisters : gender dissent and heterosocial bonds in gay culture / Stephen Maddison.".
- catalog type "text".