Bible Belt
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American theorist in the fields of queer theory and critical theory. She is best-known for her literary study Epistemology of the Closet (1990) in which she referenced Herman Melville, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde and posits that sexual identity became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries.(Michael Bronski). A pity she did not use film as a basis for her analysis. She could have been the American Zizek.
She was popular with the American left, witness the review in The Nation. I wonder how she was perceived in the bible belt.
John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft, (c. 1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797), English philosopher and early feminist, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
She was one of the first writers to mention a philosophy of sex; she referred to it as a philosophy of lasciviousness
