The field of lesbian studies is often framed in terms of the
relation between lesbianism and invisibility. Annamarie Jagose here
takes a radical new approach, suggesting that the focus on
invisibility and visibility is perhaps not the most productive way
of looking at lesbian representability. Jagose argues that the
theoretical preoccupation with metaphors of visibility is part of
the problem it attempts to remedy. In her account, the regulatory
difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality relies less on
codes of visual recognition than on a cultural adherence to the
force of first order, second order sexual sequence. As Jagose
points out, sequence does not simply specify what comes before and
what comes after; it also implies precedence -- what comes first
and what comes second.
Jagose reads canonical novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James,
Virginia Woolf, and Daphne du Maurier, drawing upon their
elaboration of sexual sequence. In these innovative readings,
tropes such as first and second, origin and outcome, and
heterosexuality and homosexuality are shown to reinforce
heterosexual precedence. Inconsequence intervenes in current
debates in lesbian historiography, taking as its pivotal moment the
fin-de-siecle phenomenon of the sexological codification of sexual
taxonomies and concluding with a reading of a post-Kinsey pulp
sexological text. Throughout, Jagose reminds us that categories of
sexual registration are always back-formations, secondary, and
belated, not only for those who identify as lesbian but also for
all sexual subjects.
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