PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) was Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Tendencies; A Dialogue on Love; Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity; The Coherence of Gothic Conventions; and Epistemology of the Closet. Wayne Koestenbaum is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Praise for the first edition: One of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies. -Catharine R. Stimpson, New York Times Book Review Universally cited as the text that ignited gay studies. -Rolling Stone In many ways, the book that turned queer theory from a latent to a manifest discipline. -Voice Literary Supplement Between Men not only transforms our interpretations of a number of beloved literary texts but begins to change our archetypes of reading as well. -Comparative Literature Substantial and exhilarating... not least in [Sedgwick's] combination of feminist, psychoanalytic, and cultural or Marxist modes of criticism. -Journal of English and Germanic Philology Sedgwick offers us a dazzling illumination of how, in a homophobic world where homosocial desire bonds men together, their desire for each other must be manifested across the body of the woman they both claim to love. We learn what are the dynamics when two men love one woman, a triangle that occurs with surprising frequency in our literature. Clever, shocking, and probably irrefutable, Between Men is also wonderfully readable. -Carolyn G. Heilbrun
