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| − | :choice not to draw distinctions among friendship, non-incestuous familial attachment and sexual attraction places “Inseparable” in the company of critical works that adopt [Adrienne] Rich’s paradigm, which regards female heterosexuality not as a fact but as an “enormous assumption.”<ref>Kathryn Harrison, “From Sappho to ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’”, ''New York Times Book Review,'' May 30, 2010, page BR11.< | + | :choice not to draw distinctions among friendship, non-incestuous familial attachment and sexual attraction places “Inseparable” in the company of critical works that adopt [Adrienne] Rich’s paradigm, which regards female heterosexuality not as a fact but as an “enormous assumption.”<ref>Kathryn Harrison, “From Sappho to ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’”, ''New York Times Book Review,'' May 30, 2010, page BR11.</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 19:52, 28 November 2010
The first (!) (and the only!) use of the phrase “female heterosexuality” in The New York Times, occurred in a review by Kathryn Harrison of Emma Donoghue’s Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature, published in The Times Book Review on May 28, 2010.
Harrison first explains that,
- as the work of a lesbian academic, “Inseparable” must establish its relationship to Adrienne Rich’s seminal — sorry, it is a phallo centric popular culture — 1980 essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” which proposed a “lesbian continuum” that includes all relationships between women, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Harrison concludes that Donoghues’
- choice not to draw distinctions among friendship, non-incestuous familial attachment and sexual attraction places “Inseparable” in the company of critical works that adopt [Adrienne] Rich’s paradigm, which regards female heterosexuality not as a fact but as an “enormous assumption.”[1]
Notes
- ↑ Kathryn Harrison, “From Sappho to ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’”, New York Times Book Review, May 30, 2010, page BR11.
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