Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

by Didier Eribon

A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed in literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822333716
• ISBN13: 9780822333715
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"