Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay critical analysis. Lee Edelman rearticulates the politics of sexuality, addressing some of the most hotly debated issues of our time.
Part 1: Literature/Theory/Gay Theory; 1: Homographesis; 2: Redeeming the Phallus; 3: The Part For The (W)hole; Part 2: Equations, Identities, and “AIDS”; 4: The Plague of Discourse; 5: The Mirror and The Tank; Part 3: Body Language/Body Politics; 6: The Sodomite's Tongue and The Bourgeois Body in Eighteenth-Century England; 7: Capitol Offenses; 8: Throwing Up/Going Down; 9: Tearooms and Sympathy; Part 4: Ocular Proof; 10: Seeing Things; 11: Imagining The Homosexual
