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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Page 161
... resistance to the wish endemic in the cul- ture surrounding and supporting it : the wish that gay people not exist . There are many people in the worlds we inhabit , and these psychiatrists are unmistakably among them , who have a ...
... resistance to the wish endemic in the cul- ture surrounding and supporting it : the wish that gay people not exist . There are many people in the worlds we inhabit , and these psychiatrists are unmistakably among them , who have a ...
Page 186
... resistance under which a far more complex and recuperative negotiation was in process . Even enjambment itself , after all , while offering the to me thrilling image of gut- or groin - level resistance or impedance , worked , in actual ...
... resistance under which a far more complex and recuperative negotiation was in process . Even enjambment itself , after all , while offering the to me thrilling image of gut- or groin - level resistance or impedance , worked , in actual ...
Page 249
... resistance manifested by Divine and others , male and female , who play fat women in the films to being assimilated to the maternal role , as fat women commonly are in representational schemas of many sorts . When Divine is playing a ...
... resistance manifested by Divine and others , male and female , who play fat women in the films to being assimilated to the maternal role , as fat women commonly are in representational schemas of many sorts . When Divine is playing a ...
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