TAMSIN SPARGO

Excelente introducción a las fascinantes ideas de Foucault y el desarrollo de la teoría queer con sus propios puntos de vista explícitos sobre la heteronormatividad, el sadomasoquismo, el travestismo, el cambio de sexo y otros temas importantes.

In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTERS series and providing a brief introduction to Foucault's compelling ideas and the development of Queer culture, this is the meeting place between the Frenchman's theories of sexuality, power and discourse and the current key exponents of Queer thinking.

First published in 1997, this volume is an attempt to prise open the name of John Bunyan. It aims to examine the operations of that name, to explore the discursive techniques which produced the figure of this author, both in the seventeenth century and later, and to identify the different meanings which have been ascribed to it in the history o...