TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bersani,Leo
TI  - Is the rectum a grave?: and other essays 
SN  - 9780226043524 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sex (Psychology)
KW  - Psychoanalysis and art
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Queer theory
KW  - Cruising (Sexual behavior)
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Psicoanálisis en la literatura
KW  - Sexo
KW  - Conducta sexual
KW  - Identidad sexual
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; The sexual subject -- Is the rectum a grave? -- Is there a gay art? -- Gay betrayals -- Sociability and cruising -- Aggression, shame, and Almodóvar's art -- Toward an aesthetic subject -- Against monogamy -- Sociality and sexuality -- Can sex make us happy? -- Fr-oucault and the end of sex -- Psychoanalysis and the aesthetic subject -- The will to know -- Two interviews -- A conversation with Leo Bersani / with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman -- Beyond redemption: an interview with Leo Bersani / with Nicholas Royle
N2  - The title essay in this collection is one of the foundations of queer theory. This is a retrospective, charting Bersani's contributions to debates connecting sexuality, psychoanalysis & aesthetics, & his reactions to a range of leading thinkers, among them Plato, Descartes, Foucault, Genet & Proust
ER  -