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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... Epistemology of the Closet ( 1990 ) . Epistemology made two hypotheses about the transitivity of sexual identities , but it was really organized around only one of them ; the other is the concern of most of the Tendencies essays . 1 ...
... Epistemology of the Closet ( 1990 ) . Epistemology made two hypotheses about the transitivity of sexual identities , but it was really organized around only one of them ; the other is the concern of most of the Tendencies essays . 1 ...
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... Epistemology of the Closet , the essays in Tendencies do not aim to adjudicate these conflictual dispensations . But by various means a lot of the essays attempt to find new ways to think about lesbian , gay , and other sexually ...
... Epistemology of the Closet , the essays in Tendencies do not aim to adjudicate these conflictual dispensations . But by various means a lot of the essays attempt to find new ways to think about lesbian , gay , and other sexually ...
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... EPISTEMOLOGIES I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay . What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth . They even speak for others too delicate ...
... EPISTEMOLOGIES I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay . What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth . They even speak for others too delicate ...
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... epistemological frameworks . CHRISTMAS EFFECTS What's " queer " ? Here's one train of thought about it . The depressing thing about the Christmas season — isn't it ? —is that it's the time when all the institutions are speaking with one ...
... epistemological frameworks . CHRISTMAS EFFECTS What's " queer " ? Here's one train of thought about it . The depressing thing about the Christmas season — isn't it ? —is that it's the time when all the institutions are speaking with one ...
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... epistemological , representational , politi- cal adventures attaching to the very many of us who may at times be ... Epistemology of the Closet , pp . 25–26 . spins the term outward along dimensions that can't be subsumed 8 Queer and Now.
... epistemological , representational , politi- cal adventures attaching to the very many of us who may at times be ... Epistemology of the Closet , pp . 25–26 . spins the term outward along dimensions that can't be subsumed 8 Queer and Now.
Contents
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Queer Tutelage | 21 |
Crossing of Discourses | 107 |
Across Genders Across Sexualities | 165 |
Bibliography | 267 |
Index | 275 |
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