Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics

Description

Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics uniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close analysis of works by Sarah Waters. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality, homosexuality, masculinities, femininities, sex, pornography, and the cultural effects of othering and domination across her work. The book covers each of Waters's published novels to date including Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and The Paying Guests and also considers her non-fiction and academic writing as well as the television adaptations of her texts. O'Callaghan situates Water's writing as an important textual space for the examination of contemporary gender and sexuality studies and locates her as an astute commentator and contributor to twenty-first century gender and sexual politics.

Claire O'Callaghan is Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University London, UK.

O'Callaghan's analysis of both [feminism and queer theory] in Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics shows that a great deal of careful negotiation is, in fact, required to navigate their often contradictory perspectives ... She unpicks the nuances of each novel with sensitive political and literary insight. * Times Literary Supplement * O'Callaghan successfully maps out manifold feminist and queer theories at play in Waters's works, and this book's approach to Waters's gender and sexual politics from both feminist and queer perspectives will be useful for further research on how lesbianism is expressed in contemporary society. * Contemporary Women's Writing *