The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 by Laura Hinton

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911

Suny Feminist Criticism and Theory

Laura Hinton

279 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology medium-paced

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Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a cont...

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