First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studi
es, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critiqu
e that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and
conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but a
lso politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and
desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency. Illuminating with uncanny p
rescience Western society's evolving debates on gender and sexuality, Between Me
n still has much to teach us.
