Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Epistemology of the Closet

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

258 pages digital 1990

11 editions

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nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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What is at stake in male homo/heterosexual definition? Through readings of Melville, Nietzsche, Wilde, James and Proust, the author argues that the vexed imperatives to specify straight and gay identities have become central to every important for...

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