Why asking ‘Was Jane Austen gay?’ still causes controversy
Would Jane Austen have even understood the question of whether she was gay? Michel Foucault, French theorist and author of The History of Sexuality (1976), would answer: “Non”. Foucault argues that, even though homosexual acts had been performed in the past, homosexuality ...
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Why asking ‘Was Jane Austen gay?’ still causes controversy
Would Jane Austen have even understood the question of whether she was gay? Michel Foucault, French theorist and author of The History of Sexuality (1976), would answer: “Non”. Foucault argues that, even though homosexual acts had been performed in the past, homosexuality as an identity did not...
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