{"product_id":"sarah-waters-gender-and-sexual-politics-9781350112575","title":"Sarah Waters Gender and Sexual Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaire O'Callaghan is Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University London, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO'Callaghan's analysis of both [feminism and queer theory] in \u003ci\u003eSarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eO’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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Queer \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Feminist Contexts of Sarah Water's Gender and Sexual Politics 1. Female Subjects: Feminists, Queer Theories and the Contemporary 'Woman' Question in \u003ci\u003eTipping the Velvet\u003c\/i\u003e 2. A Journal of Two Hearts? Lesbian Identities and Politics in \u003ci\u003eAffinity\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Beyond the 'Sex Wars': Sex, Pleasure and Pornography in \u003ci\u003eFingersmith\u003c\/i\u003e 4. 'Back to Normal': Lost Histories\/ Affective Archives - \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e–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 \u003ci\u003eThe Paying Guests\u003c\/i\u003e  Afterword: Telling it Straight? Water's Afterlives on Stage and Screen Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084828897623,"sku":"9781350112575","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sarah-waters-gender-and-sexual-politics-9781350112575","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}