Part 1: An encounter -- Part 2: Perspectives -- Part 3: Subjectivity, transgression, and deviant desire -- Part 4: Transgression and its containment -- Part 5: Perversion's lost histories -- Part 6: Sexual perversion: pathology to politics -- Part 7: Beleaguered norms and perverse dynamics -- Part 8: Transgressive reinscriptions, early modern and post-modern -- Part 9: Beyond sexual difference
Summary
Returning to the early modern period, this study questions and develops issues of post-modernity. It shows how literature histories and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence may be relevant to current debates and discusses topics ranging from homophobia to transgression and its containment
Analysis
Literature Special subjects Homosexuality
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-381) and index
