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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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis collection of essays is a meditation on sexuality in literature and life and on the artificial categories imposed on people because of their sexual orientation. The idea that the "two available ... Read full review
Contents
| 1 | |
Queer Tutelage | 21 |
Crossing of Discourses | 107 |
Across Genders Across Sexualities | 165 |
Bibliography | 267 |
Index | 275 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Tendencies Series Q |
| Author | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
| Contributors | Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon |
| Publisher | Duke University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0822381869, 9780822381860 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / LGBTQ Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies |
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