The Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Abstract

This research focuses on analysing the representation of the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. This research aims to reveal how the intersection of gender, sexuality and race constructed in the novel and the critical position of Reid as the author of the novel towards the issue of the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race. In the form of qualitative research, the data related the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race are analysed using Stuart Hall’s theory of representation, especially the discursive approach proposed by Michel Foucault. Then, the data are contextualized to find the author’s ideological position towards the issues. This research reveals that there is the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race constructed in Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo that leads into discrimination in the form of domestic violence, sexual harassment, discrimination in the workplace, and bisexual discrimination experienced by a bisexual brown-skinned woman named Evelyn Hugo. The ideology revealed in the novel proves that Reid rejects the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race problem.