Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer HistoryFeeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Demands of Queer History | 31 |
Walter Paters Backward Modernism | 53 |
Willa Cathers Sad Kindred | 72 |
Radclyffe Halls Unwanted Being | 100 |
Sylvia Townsend Warner and | 129 |
Notes | 165 |
Acknowledgments | 189 |