Roof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are the necessary obstacles in a heroic plot of no[...]

Covering a wide range of popular culture topics from Frankenstein to Nintendo and from baseball to bodybuilding, Reproductions of Reproduction examines the relation between representation and technological change, setting forth a psychoanalytic argument which links popular culture with law and tec[...]