Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess.

First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations...(展开全部)

Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess.

As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. This book brings together previously u...(展开全部)

Franco Moretti 弗朗哥·莫莱蒂 意大利文学史学家、理论家。1972年毕业于罗马大学现代文学专业，曾于萨莱诺大学和维罗纳大学任教，2000年起任教于斯坦福大学。2014年凭借《远读》荣获“美国国家书评人协会奖”。他创办了小说研究中心和文学实验室，并提出了“世界文学体系”和“远读”两个重要概念。代表作有《布尔乔亚》《远读》《世界之路》《现代史诗》《欧洲小说地图：1800—1900》《表图、地图、树图》等。 译者简介 朱康，文学博士，副教授，毕业于华东师范大学中文系，现任教于华东师范大学国际汉语文化学院，研究方向为中国现当代文学、西方批评理论。著有《现实主义的变奏：当代视域中的文学批评与文化分析》，译有《词语的肉身》（主译）、《根本恶》（合译）、《布尔乔亚》等。

"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals, ' wrote Max Weber, in 1895...(展开全部)

"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals, ' wrote Max Weber, in 1895...(展开全部)

The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic, has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In Lesbian Death, Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises—and especially the failures—of lesbian feminism and its usefulness today. Lesbian Death reads ...(展开全部)

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton—a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs—anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "regulars." Given that all of the clubs where she worked prohibited physical contact between the exotic dancers...(展开全部)

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton - a southeastern American city renowned for its strip clubs - anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating heterosexual, male strip club "regulars." Given that all of the clubs where she worked prohibited physical contact between the ...(展开全部)