Tracy Rutler, author of Queering the Enlightenment, explores how French literature in the 18th century resisted heteronormativity. She analyzes works by Prévost, Crébillion, Marivaux, and Graffigny that questioned patriarchal power and relations. Rutler examines themes of reproduction, masculinity, marriage, and same-sex community, offering unique readings informed by philosophers and theorists such as Foucault and Rancière.