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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Paperback | Pages: 244 pages

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Title	:	Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Author	:	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 244 pages
Published	:	May 20th 1993 by Columbia University Press (first published April 15th 1985)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Philosophy. Theory. GLBT. Queer. LGBT. Criticism. Literary Criticism

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This is one of the first books that opened the new theoretical school of queer theory. As such, it made a lot of people mad back in the day and it is still pissing people off today. Sedgwick claims that the patriarchy has been using women to get closer to men. This is where she loses many people. This is where she lost several people in my grad class (you would think a bunch of English majors would read and pay attention). If people would read on they would see that she goes on to say that using women to do that does not make a man gay. It is of making new bonds or strengthening existing ones. It does not mean you do not love the woman you married, but there is still a "bros before ho's" connotation to it. And it is not true of all men, but good grief! If you look around you can see that a lot has not changed since the Middle Ages and that women can still be used as bargaining chips. This makes the patriarchy uncomfortable because homosocial bonding (aka, bros) is all fine and dandy. But the second the homosocial becomes homosexual, everything goes to hell in a hand basket before the offender even knows what happened. This is a very watered-down and condensed summary of Sedgwick's work, and does not do her brilliance justice.

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Original Title:	Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
ISBN:	0231082738 (ISBN13: 9780231082730)
Edition Language:	English

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My patience for this kind of needlessly convoluted academic writing has worn thin over the years.

Oh Eve.

1. I was drawn to this book mostly because I knew there was a chapter on The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and that novel needs a good analysis of the race-sex-class dynamics Dickens used. More generally, it's an interesting book. What I didn't expect, but was pleased to find, was how much time Sedgwick spends writing about the role of women in the texts she chooses. I thought that enriched her analysis, although I do think the book would have benefited from a clearer discussion of the role misogyny

Sedgwick's theory of paranoid cognitive model evolves from here to "Touching Feeling". Once you get the grips of her argument, it's hard not to see homosocial desire as shaping the world. This model of relationship leads to paranoid cognition, as lapsing to oscillation between homophobia and homosexual desire is the shunned, or abject, side of this desire. Her way of demonstration is crucial, because for the bourgeois era literature has been the best way to give shape to inner dialogue and

This book was a great place to start reading about gender and queer theory for me. It was at a level that was easily accessible, but did not stay away from definite terms. Her theory of the erotic triangle is very well applied to all the case studies she found throughout the periods. In my opinion, one will even be able to spot the described dynamics in todays gender interaction to a certain extent. Well worth the read!

This book was obviously written with a real passion, genuine enthusiasm, and good intentions. Also, it was one of the first of its kind, so kudos, Ill give Kosofsky that. However, the writing style is simply atrocious. As for your possible reaction to the argumentation in the book: it can go either way--you will either accept Kosofskys interpretation and like the book, or you will see many of her concepts as farfetched, and remain skeptical.

Interesting but dense.