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At the time of its first appearance in 1985 between men was viewed as an important intervention into feminist as well as gay and lesbian studies. Male male social bonds have a powerful influence on the sexual relations of some young heterosexual men. The friend could offer a reflection of ones own worth and a celebration of a kind of mutuality that was not connected to family or home. Eve sedgwicks 1985 treatise, between men centralises an idea of male homosocial desire.
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English literature and male homosocial desire by analyzing a. In exploring the complexities of malemale relations beyond the simple labels of sexuality, queer friendship shows how love between men has a rich and varied history in english literature. English readers of whitman notes bibliography index. Feminists also identify a close link between female homosociality, feminism and lesbian desire, with audre lorde stating the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. Acclaimed as one of the truly innovative poets of her generation by maud ellmann, sedgwicks work as a poet is, perhaps, less well known, but is no less compelling than her groundbreaking trilogy of queer theoretical texts. Eve kosofsky sedgwick at the time of its first appearance in 1985 between men was viewed as an important intervention into feminist as well as gay and lesbian studies.
This chapter adopts contemporary concepts of male homosociality and homosocial desire to analyze king arthurs masculinity with which to understand gender relations in his court. English culture, chiefly as embodied in the mideighteenth to midnineteenth. The text is a progression of the analysis in sedgwicks previous work on homosocial relationships, between men. English literature and homosocial desire, eve kosofsky sedgwick argues that changes in the continuum of male homosocial desire were closely associated with visible changes in the class structure of mideighteenth to midnineteenth century england, and were not readily understood outside of their relation to women and the gender system. Hailed by the new york times as one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men s studies and gay studies, this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from restoration comedies to tennysons princess.
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