Question
This author argued that in Victorian literature, men “traffic in women,” making them the subject of love triangles in which the bond between the rivals is often the strongest. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of Between Men. In another work, she criticized the “double bind” of a “minority” view of sexual orientation, in which homosexuality is taken as fixed and only possessed by a small part of society.
ANSWER: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
[10e] Sedgwick analogized the “minority” view to this general position that views sexual object choice as a historical constant. This general view attributes fixed, intrinsic characteristics to categories like gender.
ANSWER: essentialism
[10m] Sedgwick was criticized by Terry Castle, who traced this concept in The Female Thermometer. Sigmund Freud described this concept as the confirmation of “surmounted primitive beliefs” in an essay on “The Sandman.”
ANSWER: uncanny
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