1st Edition
Dangerous Desire Literature of Sexual Freedom and Sexual Violence Since the Sixties
By Pamela Barnett
Copyright 2004
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dangerous Desire is an important work that calls attention to how post-1960s literary representations of rape have shaped the ways in which both sexual and social freedoms are imagined in American culture. Exploring key post-sixties texts including Cleaver's Soul on Ice , Brownmiller's Against Our Will , French's The Women's Room , Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place , Walker's Meridian , and... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Desire and Domination: Eldridge Cleaver and the Racial-Sexual Politics of the Sixties Chapter 2 James Dickey's Deliverance : Suburban White Male Nightmare or Dream Come True? Chapter 3 The Recurring Dream: Utopian Politics and Sexual Violence in Alice Walker's Meridian Chapter 4 The Anatomical Fiat: Rape and Gendering in Early Second-Wave Feminist Discourse Chapter 5 Lesbians Are Not Women: Rape as Compulsory Heterosexuality in The Women of Brewster Place Chapter 6 Just How Far from Heaven? Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Pamela E. Barnett is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina.
