Epistemology of the Closet

An article in ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' described Sedgwick's homosexual closet as "the defining structure for gay oppression in this century". The article points out the influence behind Sedgwick's strong disagreement with those who separate gays and straights as "distinct kinds of persons", with no common humanity. The article later goes on to describe how "Her close readings of Melville's ''[[Billy Budd]]'', Wilde's ''[[Dorian Gray]]'' and of Proust, Nietzsche, Henry James and Thackeray bristle with keen observations relating entrenched fears of same-sex relationships to contemporary gay-bashing and obvious displays of heterosexual or "macho" attitudes".

An article in ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' described Sedgwick's homosexual closet as "the defining structure for gay oppression in this century". The article points out the influence behind Sedgwick's strong disagreement with those who separate gays and straights as "distinct kinds of persons", with no common humanity. The article later goes on to describe how "Her close readings of Melville's ''[[Billy Budd]]'', Wilde's ''[[Dorian Gray]]'' and of Proust, Nietzsche, Henry James and Thackeray bristle with keen observations relating entrenched fears of same-sex relationships to contemporary gay-bashing and obvious displays of heterosexual or "macho" attitudes".

However, not all reviews were positive. Geographer Michael Brown has criticized Sedgwick's 'closet' as a term for spatial metaphor. Brown has also questioned the limits of 'the closet' as "a mechanism for understanding the dynamics of queer visibilities in national contexts where the homo/hetero binary is not the primary means of understanding sexualities".<ref>Gavin Brown. Sedgwick's geographies: Touching space</ref>

However, not all reviews were positive. Geographer Michael Brown has criticized Sedgwick's 'closet' as a term for spatial metaphor.<ref name="brown_etal_2011"|pages=124-125></ref> Geographers have also questioned the limits of 'the closet' as "a mechanism for understanding the dynamics of queer visibilities in national contexts where the homo/hetero binary is not the primary means of understanding sexualities". <ref name="brown_etal_2011"|pages=122></ref>

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