Claire O’Callaghan is Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University London, UK.

• Introduction: The Queer and Feminist Contexts of Sarah Water's Gender and Sexual Politics1. Female Subjects: Feminists, Queer Theories and the Contemporary 'Woman' Question in Tipping the Velvet2. A Journal of Two Hearts? Lesbian Identities and Politics in Affinity3. Beyond the 'Sex Wars': Sex, Pleasure and Pornography in Fingersmith4. 'Back to Normal': Lost Histories/ Affective Archives - The Night Watch5. The Little Stranger–A Study of the Heteropatriachal Male and the Dynamics of Masculine Domination6. 'I'd Had Terrific Plans': The Return of the Gendered and Sexual Oppression in The Paying GuestsAfterword: Telling it Straight? Water's Afterlives on Stage and ScreenBibliographyIndex

O'Callaghan's analysis of both [feminism and queer theory] in Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics shows that a great deal of careful negotiation is, in fact, required to navigate their often contradictory perspectives ... She unpicks the nuances of each novel with sensitive political and literary insight.

Claire O’Callaghan is Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University London, UK.

• Introduction: The Queer and Feminist Contexts of Sarah Water's Gender and Sexual Politics1. Female Subjects: Feminists, Queer Theories and the Contemporary 'Woman' Question in Tipping the Velvet2. A Journal of Two Hearts? Lesbian Identities and Politics in Affinity3. Beyond the 'Sex Wars': Sex, Pleasure and Pornography in Fingersmith4. 'Back to Normal': Lost Histories/ Affective Archives - The Night Watch5. The Little Stranger–A Study of the Heteropatriachal Male and the Dynamics of Masculine Domination6. 'I'd Had Terrific Plans': The Return of the Gendered and Sexual Oppression in The Paying GuestsAfterword: Telling it Straight? Water's Afterlives on Stage and ScreenBibliographyIndex

O'Callaghan's analysis of both [feminism and queer theory] in Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics shows that a great deal of careful negotiation is, in fact, required to navigate their often contradictory perspectives ... She unpicks the nuances of each novel with sensitive political and literary insight.

Claire O’Callaghan is Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University London, UK.

• Introduction: The Queer and Feminist Contexts of Sarah Water's Gender and Sexual Politics1. Female Subjects: Feminists, Queer Theories and the Contemporary 'Woman' Question in Tipping the Velvet2. A Journal of Two Hearts? Lesbian Identities and Politics in Affinity3. Beyond the 'Sex Wars': Sex, Pleasure and Pornography in Fingersmith4. 'Back to Normal': Lost Histories/ Affective Archives - The Night Watch5. The Little Stranger–A Study of the Heteropatriachal Male and the Dynamics of Masculine Domination6. 'I'd Had Terrific Plans': The Return of the Gendered and Sexual Oppression in The Paying GuestsAfterword: Telling it Straight? Water's Afterlives on Stage and ScreenBibliographyIndex

O'Callaghan's analysis of both [feminism and queer theory] in Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics shows that a great deal of careful negotiation is, in fact, required to navigate their often contradictory perspectives ... She unpicks the nuances of each novel with sensitive political and literary insight.