Epistemology of the Closet
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Foundational 1990 work of queer theory arguing that the homosexual/heterosexual binary structures modern Western thought. Through readings of Melville, Wilde, James, and Proust, it gives readers the vocabulary of the closet, minoritizing and universalizing views, and homosexual panic.
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