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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

1985 · by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Readings from Shakespeare’s sonnets to Dickens: bonds between men are often formed through a woman in erotic triangles, and in modern Western culture homophobia cuts the continuum between male homosocial and homosexual desire – an arrangement bound up with the subordination of women.

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