Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters: Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonding in Gay Culture

Maddison, S.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-10-25

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780312236373

DOI: 10.1057/9780333985199

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 221.0