TendenciesTendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites Tendencies is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun. |
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... masculine , receptive if you are female or feminine ) ; your most eroticized sexual organs ( supposed to correspond to the procreative capabilities of your sex , and to your insertive / receptive assignment ) ; your sexual fantasies ...
... masculine , receptive if you are female or feminine ) ; your most eroticized sexual organs ( supposed to correspond to the procreative capabilities of your sex , and to your insertive / receptive assignment ) ; your sexual fantasies ...
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... masculinity . For even the most feminine - self - identified boys , Friedman uses the phrases “ sense of masculine self - regard " ( RF , p . 245 ) , “ masculine competency " ( p . 20 ) , and " self - evaluation as appropriately masculine ...
... masculinity . For even the most feminine - self - identified boys , Friedman uses the phrases “ sense of masculine self - regard " ( RF , p . 245 ) , “ masculine competency " ( p . 20 ) , and " self - evaluation as appropriately masculine ...
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... masculine CGI necessarily entails any particular content , or whether it is an almost purely formal , preconditional ... masculinity and any scapegoating of male homosexuality ; since ego psychology treats the de- velopment of male ...
... masculine CGI necessarily entails any particular content , or whether it is an almost purely formal , preconditional ... masculinity and any scapegoating of male homosexuality ; since ego psychology treats the de- velopment of male ...
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