num_pages: 258
description: What is at stake in male homo/heterosexual definition? Through readings of Melville, Nietzsche, Wilde, James and Proust, the author argues that the vexed imperatives to specify straight and gay identities have become central to every important form of knowledge of the 20th century.
language: English
title: Epistemology of the Closet
titlecomplete: Epistemology of the Closet
genres: Academic, Gender, Philosophy, LGBT, Queer, Theory, Feminism, Nonfiction, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 2177
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: James Russell Lowell Prize
publisher: University of California Press