All about women: Pedro Almodovar and the heterosocial dynamic

Textual Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 265-284

  Maddison, Stephen ^a  

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EID: 61149132652     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502360050082613     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. For an account of these conflicts see Judith Halberstam and C. Jacob Hale, 'Butch/FTM border wars: a note on collaboration'; Judith Halberstam, 'Transgender butch: butch/FTM border wars and the masculine continuum'
2. and C. Jacob Hale, 'Consuming the living, dis(re)membering the dead in the butch/Ftm borderlands', all in GLQ, 4 (2), 1998.
3. Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (London: Penguin, 1962), pp. 225-6.
4. See Maurice Yacowar, Tennessee Williams and Film (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1977), p. 22.
5. Stanley Kauffman, Persons of the Drama: Theater Criticism and Comment (New York: Harper and Row, 1976)
6. quoted in Michael Bronski, Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1984), p.126.
7. Howard Taubman, 'Modern primer: helpful hints to tell appearances from truth', New York Times, 28 April 1963, section 2, p.1.
8. Gilbert Adair, 'The man who loves women', Independent on Sunday, 29 August 1999.
9. Andrew O'Hagan, 'Pedro's latest surprise', Daily Telegraph, 27 August 1999, p. 22.
10. Mike Silverstein, 'An open letter to Tennessee Williams', in Karla Jay and Allen Young (eds) Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation (New York: Pyramid, 1974), p.70.
11. Brendan Lemon, 'A man fascinated by women, as actresses', New York Times, 19 September 1999, p. 15.
12. See Gert Hekma, 'A female soul in a male body': sexual inversion as gender inversion in nineteenth century sexology', in Gilbert Herdt (ed.) Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History (New York: Zone Books, 1994).
13. George Chauncey, 'From sexual inversion to homosexuality: medicine and the changing conceptualisation of female deviance', Salmagundi (Autumn 1982-Winter 1983, pp. 58-9);
14. and Tim Edwards, Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism (London and New York: Routledge, 1994).
15. O'Hagan, 'Pedro's latest surprise'.
16. Adair, 'The man who loves women'.
17. See Robert Chalmers, 'Pedro on the verge of a nervous breakdown?', Observer, 5 June 1994, p. 24.
18. Paul Julian Smith, 'Silicone and sentiment', Sight and Sound, September 1999, 9 (9), p.30.
19. 'He is like a lover! He asks everything about you! He needs everything! He's curious and intense and possessive, like a boy.' Cecilia Roth (Manuela in All About My Mother)
20. quoted in Jonathan Van Meter, 'A man of many women', New York Times Magazine, 12 September 1999, p. 68.
21. See Chalmers, 'Pedro on the verge'
22. and David Gritten, 'One for the girls', Telegraph Magazine, 14 August 1999.
23. Tom Charity, 'All about Pedro', Time Out, 18-25 August 1999, p. 27.
24. See also Van Meter, 'A man of many women', p. 67
25. and Smith, 'Silicone and sentiment', p. 28.
26. Philip French, 'Mum's the word', Observer, 29 August 1999.
27. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).
28. Sedgwick, Between Men, p.89. Emphasis in original.
29. Charity, 'All about Pedro', p.28.
30. For a discussion of this difficulty see Teresa de Lauretis, 'Film and the visible', in Bad Object-Choices (eds) How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video (Seattle: Bay Press, 1991), pp. 258-74.
31. Stephen Maddison, Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters: Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonds in Gay Culture (London: Macmillan, 2000).
32. See Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (New York: Routledge, 1992)
33. and Constance Penley, NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America (London and New York: Verso, 1997) for critical discussions of slash.
34. See Maddison, Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters, for further discussion of slash as heterosocial practice.
35. These are familiar arguments in feminist discourse. See Teresa de Lauretis, 'Sexual indifference and lesbian representation'
36. reprinted in Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale and David M. Halperin (eds) The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (New York and London: Routledge, 1993).
37. Luce Irigaray, 'This sex which is not one', in This Sex Which Is Not One (New York: Cornell University Press, 1985).
38. Craig Owens, 'Outlaws: gay men in feminism', in Alice Jardine and Paul Smith (eds) Men in Feminism (New York and London: Routledge, 1989).
39. Caroline Cossey, My Story (London: Faber & Faber, 1991).
40. Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (New York and London: Routledge, 1994)
41. and My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (New York and London: Routledge, 1998).
42. I am aware that the reality of worldwide AIDS infection is that the majority of those living (and dying) with the disease live in central Africa and do not identify themselves as gay. Nevertheless, in the West the early stages of the epidemic were widely associated with homosexual 'infection' and other homophobic fantasies. See Stuart Marshall, 'Picturing deviancy', in Tessa Boffin and Sunil Gupta (eds) Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology (London: Rivers Oram, 1990);
43. and Simon Watney, Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media, 2nd edn (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989).