Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: feminism, queer theory and heterosexuality 1
5. Part One: Revisiting the spinster
6. Chapter 1 ‘Becoming my own ghost’: spinsterhood and the ‘invisibility’ of heterosexuality in Sarah Waters’ Affinity 25
7. Chapter 2 Telling tales out of school: spinsters, scandals and intergenerational heterosexuality in Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal 45
8. Part Two: Transgressive female heterosexuality
9. Chapter 3 Queering Alice, killing Lolita: feminism, queer theory and the politics of child sexuality in A. M. Homes’s The End of Alice 67
10. Chapter 4 Unauthorised reproduction: class, pregnancy and transgressive female heterosexuality in Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar 91
11. Part Three: Reproducing heterosexuality
12. Chapter 5 ‘First one thing and then the other’: rewriting the intersexed body in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex 111
13. Chapter 6 Imitations of life: cloning, heterosexuality and the human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go 131
14. Bibliography 149
15. Index 157