{"product_id":"lost-causes-narrative-etiology-and-queer-theory-paperback-3","title":"Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eValerie Rohy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCausality dominates today's discussions of LGBT rights: anti-gay voices imagine gay proliferation through seduction, influence, and corruption, while queer communities largely embrace biological determinism, saying they are \"born gay.\" Reading popular rhetoric, psychoanalytic theory, and British and American literature from the late nineteenth century through the present day, \u003cem\u003eLost Causes\u003c\/em\u003e decenters etiology from queer politics, engages abject tropes of \"homosexual reproduction,\" and considers the effects of retroactive, absent, and contingent causality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eValerie Rohy\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of\u003cem\u003e Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAnachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336311783673,"sku":"9780199340200","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/8v-R_cjEUy9780199340200_6a2dba35-5f1e-465d-8a16-cfc3423b43d1.webp?v=1769667414","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lost-causes-narrative-etiology-and-queer-theory-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}