Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams's America

This book explores the diverse representation of sexualities in Tennessee Williams's texts and argues for his creative response to the increase, prior to and following World War II, in criminal prosecution of transgressive sexual activity. It expands longstanding scholarly assessments of Williams's work, using the law as a framework to assess this writer's role as a cultural, political, and legal force participating in the normalization of diverse sexualities, during his lifetime and beyond.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Illegal Bodies
1. Privacy and Identity
2. The Power of Disgust
3. The Fugitive Kind
4. The Politics of Recognition
Conclusion: With Dignity for All
Bibliography

About the author

Jacqueline O'Connor is professor of English at Boise State University.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline O'Connor
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781611478938
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-893-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 527 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama