On Homo-sociality: Sedgwick’s Critical Theory

DOI

10.2991/iceess-18.2018.17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Homo-sociality, Sedgwick, Male Bonding, Critical Theory

Abstract

Homo-sociality relates to social relationships between persons of the same sex, Male bonding is the embodiment of homo-sociality. Obligatory heterosexuality was built into male-dominated kinship systems, and homophobia is just a consequence of patriarchy. Sedgwick’s theoretical system was based on sociology and anthropology. Based on the predecessors, Sedgwick shows the exchange and degradation of women have become a paradigm in our lives, she introduced the homo-social desire into literary criticism. The homo-social desire revealed by Sedgwick is almost everywhere in classical literature. Sedgwick’s criticism not only transforms conventional interpretations of a number of beloved literary texts, but also begins to change our thinking set of reading as well.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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