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Of Closed Doors and Open Hatches: Heteronormative Plots in Eighteenth-Century (Women’s) Studies
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Of Closed Doors and Open Hatches: Heteronormative Plots in Eighteenth-Century (Women’s) Studies

Sue Lanser
The Eighteenth century (Lubbock), Vol.53(3), pp.273-290
2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2012.0028

Abstract

18th century Heterosexism in literature Homosexuality in literature Pirates in literature Heteronormativity Literary Criticism Literary History Sociology of Sex and Gender History Women's Studies
English diarist Hester Thrale's preoccupations with gender (non)conformity and queer sexualities helps illuminate the emergence of what Michael Warner and Lauren Berland call heteronormativity. It was in the eighteenth century that hierarchies of property and propriety were consolidated into heteronormative principles that underwrote national identities. Here, Lanser examines heteronormativity and its discontents.

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