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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... representational codes of bodies and body parts , but everything about this urgent subject seemed hopelessly confused and confusing . Why was John Wayne's big flabby butt taken as yet another sign of his virility while my aging male ...
... representational codes of bodies and body parts , but everything about this urgent subject seemed hopelessly confused and confusing . Why was John Wayne's big flabby butt taken as yet another sign of his virility while my aging male ...
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... representational recastings and by the gen- der specification , class complication , and racial bifurcation that accompa- nied the shifts from nineteenth - century European to twentieth - century U.S. models . Its consequence : that ...
... representational recastings and by the gen- der specification , class complication , and racial bifurcation that accompa- nied the shifts from nineteenth - century European to twentieth - century U.S. models . Its consequence : that ...
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... representational needs it serves , itself re- quires new forms and new embodiments . MM : As a form of representational labor , the fat woman's work of em- blematizing the circulatory embolisms of a culture might be said to fall into ...
... representational needs it serves , itself re- quires new forms and new embodiments . MM : As a form of representational labor , the fat woman's work of em- blematizing the circulatory embolisms of a culture might be said to fall into ...
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