Review: Annamarie Jagose: Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence.

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review:

When reading theory we come into contact with assumptions upon which texts are based, indeed most theory relies on the "self-evidence" of certain beliefs to generate knowledge. In texts such as these, generally what is more interesting than the actual content is the way that the content is assembled - the organizing assumptions in a process which aims not to make assumptions. "Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence" is a text which does not take much for granted, its interventions dissolve the camouflage coating that distracts ideologically-softened minds. In her inimical urbane style Annamarie Jagose pulls apart the "narrative mechanisms of numerical order or chronological
progression" (ix) to examine the mechanics of narratives that form separate and hierarchically rendered temporal switches figuring female homosexuality in belated relation to heterosexuality and to male homosexuality.