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Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters

Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonding in Gay Culture

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  • © 2000

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  1. Stephen Maddison
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephen Maddison
    Pages 1-13

  3. From Pathology to Gender Dissent: Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire

    • Stephen Maddison
    Pages 14-63

  4. Heterosocial Tendencies

    • Stephen Maddison
    Pages 64-101

  5. Roseanne: Domestic Goddess as Heterosocial Heroine?

    • Stephen Maddison
    Pages 102-137

  6. Pedro Almodóvar and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the Heterosocial Spectator and Misogyny

    • Stephen Maddison
    Pages 138-181

  7. Conclusion

    • Stephen Maddison
    Pages 182-197

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 198-221
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About this book

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 concepts in lesbian and gay theory.

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'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

About the author

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.   

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