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Lighting the Closet
Edmundson, Mark | January 21, 1991 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Epistemology of the Closet," by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Disciplinary society doesn't confer clear identities-gay or straight, depraved or righteous-so much as it systematically blurs the boundaries between the terms, thus leaving everybody and most painfully gay men, in a state of anxious uncertainty. That uncertainty is much more manipulable, Sedgwick argues, than any monolithic identity could possibly be. The "discourse" of modern sexuality keeps everybody off balance.

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EPISTEMOLOGY of the Closet (Book); SEDGWICK, Eve Kosofsky; HOMOSEXUALITY; SEX; BOOKS
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