Title: Homosociality: A Keyword of Sedgwick’s Sexuality Criticism

Abstract: Homosocial relates to social relationships between persons of the same sex in the context of sociology. Male bonding was considered to be a necessity of human evolution, which is significant to the formation of social cooperation. Some anthropologists believed that women were materialized and became transactions in the patriarchy society. Sedgwick’s theoretical system was based on sociology and anthropology; she paid more attention to male homosocial desire, which was viewed as the ultimate source and truth of male motivations, identities, and emotions, the impulse of male society. Sedgwick introduced the homosocial desire into classical literary criticism. The homosocial desire revealed by her is almost everywhere in Western literature. Sedgwick’s criticism not only transforms conventional interpretations of a number of beloved literary texts, but also begins to change our patterns of reading as well.

Keywords: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, sexuality criticism, homosocialit, male bonding

Author: Zhen Xu, Lecturer, Humanities College, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China