Title: Eroticism and containment : notes from the flood plain /
Authors: Siegel, Carol, 1952-; Kibbey, Ann, 1948-
Publisher: New York University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Gender identity Social aspects.; Sex role Social aspects.; Erotic literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Eroticism in literature.
Contents: Identity and its discontents. Coming to the table: the differential politics of This bridge called my back / Kayann Short -- Talking about sex: sexology, sexual difference, and confessional talk shows / Deborah Lupton -- Henry James's thwarted love / Wendy Graham -- Gender and the discourse of nationalism in Anita Desai's Clear light of day / Sangetta Ray. Bad Medicine: diagnoses and domestic desires. Diagnosing the domestic woman in The woman in white and Dora / Lauren Chattman -- Memoirs from a German colony: what do white women want? / Marcia Klotz -- (Dis)Locating gender space and medical discourse in colonial India / Sandhya Shetty. Dream girls and boys. The third sex: figures of inversion in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Andrea L. Harris -- Boys' own stories and new spellings of my name: coming out and other myths of queer personality / Robert McRuer -- In formation: male homosocial desire in Willa Cather's One of ours / D.A. Boxwell -- Shakespeare out in Portland: Gus Van Sant's My own private Idaho, homoerotics, and boy actors / David Román.