Sarah Waters Gender and Sexual Politics [Hardcover]

Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politicsuniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close analysis of works by Sarah Waters. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality, homosexuality, masculinities, femininities, sex, pornography, and the cultural effects of othering and domination across her work. The book covers each of Waters's published novels to date includingTipping the Velvet, FingersmithandThe Paying Guestsand also considers her non-fiction and academic writing as well as the television adaptations of her texts. O'Callaghan situates Water's writing as an important textual space for the examination of contemporary gender and sexuality studies and locates her as an astute commentator and contributor to twenty-first century gender and sexual politics.

Introduction: Sarah Waters's Gender and Sexual Politics
Chapter One: Tipping the Velvet and the Woman question anew
Chapter Two: 'A Journal of Two Hearts': The L word in Affinity
Chapter Three: Re-thinking Sex, Pornography and the Sex Wars via Fingersmith
Chapter Four: Gendered and sexual regression and Waters's wartime Britain: The Night Watch
Chapter Five: Queer eyes and straight guys: Heterosexuality in The Little Stranger
Chapter Six: Equality Illusions and The Paying Guests
Afterword: Straightening Sarah: The gender and sexual politics of adaptation

Claire O'Callaghan is Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University London, UK.