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Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault

By Jonathan Dollimore (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)

Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Sexology; Homosexuality

Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1991

From the publisher’s description:

A path-breaking book in a rapidly expanding field of literary and cultural study, Sexual Dissidence shows how the literature, histories, and subcultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. It includes chapters on transgression and its containment, contemporary theories of sexual difference, homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race.

Subjects
Gender and Sexuality / Literature / Literary Theory / Cultural Studies / Gender Studies / Sexology / Homosexuality /

Dollimore, Jonathan (NHC Fellow, 1988–89). Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1991.