Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters

Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters is a provocative account of the importance of women and cross-gender identification in gay male culture. It offers a range of cultural readings from Tennessee William's classic A Streetcar Named Desire and Forster's 'gay' novel Maurice through Pulp Fiction , queer lifestyle magazines, Roseanne , slash fan fiction and Jarman's Edward II to Almodovar's camp classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . Theoretically sophisticated, yet passionate, accessible and opinionated, Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters takes issue with many of the sacred cows of contemporary gay politics, and offers a number of new concepts in lesbian and gay theory.

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction From Pathology to Gender Dissent: Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Heterosocial Tendencies Roseanne : Domestic Goddess as Fag Heroine? Pedro Almodovar and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown : The Heterosocial Spectator and Misogyny Conclusion Notes Index