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Book SynopsisClaire O'Callaghan is Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University London, UK.
Trade ReviewO'Callaghan's analysis of both [feminism and queer theory] in
Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics shows that a great deal of careful negotiation is, in fact, required to navigate their often contradictory perspectives ... She unpicks the nuances of each novel with sensitive political and literary insight. * Times Literary Supplement *
O’Callaghan successfully maps out manifold feminist and queer theories at play in Waters’s works, and this book’s approach to Waters’s gender and sexual politics from both feminist and queer perspectives will be useful for further research on how lesbianism is expressed in contemporary society. * Contemporary Women’s Writing *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Queer
and Feminist Contexts of Sarah Water's Gender and Sexual Politics 1. Female Subjects: Feminists, Queer Theories and the Contemporary 'Woman' Question in
Tipping the Velvet 2. A Journal of Two Hearts? Lesbian Identities and Politics in
Affinity 3. Beyond the 'Sex Wars': Sex, Pleasure and Pornography in
Fingersmith 4. 'Back to Normal': Lost Histories/ Affective Archives -
The Night Watch 5.
The Little Stranger–A Study of the Heteropatriachal Male and the Dynamics of Masculine Domination 6. 'I'd Had Terrific Plans': The Return of the Gendered and Sexual Oppression in
The Paying Guests Afterword: Telling it Straight? Water's Afterlives on Stage and Screen Bibliography Index
