Is the rectum a grave?
by Leo Bersani

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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.
Sex (Psychology)AestheticsGender identityCruising (Sexual behavior)Psychoanalysis and artPsychoanalysisQueer theoryHomosexualitySexuality