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Fags, Hags, and Queer Sisters

Name: Fags, Hags, and Queer Sisters
Author: Stephen Maddison
ISBN: 9780312236373

by Stephen Maddison

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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.

About the Author, Stephen Maddison

Stephen Maddison is Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of East London.

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A detailed account of heterosocial relationships between queer men and straight women and of their representations on stage, in film, on television, and in contemporary fiction. Maddison (cultural studies, U. of East London) uses themes of inversion with feminist and queer work on gender to argue that third sex models of homosexuality continue to inform gay culture in the US and Britain. He explores the bonds between gay men and straight women through studying works including Williams' , as well as works by Forster, and Almovidar. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)