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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... Willa Cather and Others " first appeared as " Across Gender , Across Sexuality : Willa Cather and Others , " in South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 ( Winter 1989 ) : 53- 72 , © 1989 by Duke University Press . " A Poem Is Being Written ...
... Willa Cather and Others " first appeared as " Across Gender , Across Sexuality : Willa Cather and Others , " in South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 ( Winter 1989 ) : 53- 72 , © 1989 by Duke University Press . " A Poem Is Being Written ...
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... Willa Cather and Others 167 A Poem Is Being Written 177 Divinity : A Dossier , A Performance Piece , A Little- Understood Emotion ( written with Michael Moon ) 215 White Glasses 252 Bibliography 267 Index 275 FOREWORD T TIMES At the ...
... Willa Cather and Others 167 A Poem Is Being Written 177 Divinity : A Dossier , A Performance Piece , A Little- Understood Emotion ( written with Michael Moon ) 215 White Glasses 252 Bibliography 267 Index 275 FOREWORD T TIMES At the ...
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... Willa Cather refracts lesbian desires through gay male identities ? That for Henry James the crucial term " ironic " seems to have been an epithet that referred to lesbian sexuality ? That John Waters's movies insistently stage the ...
... Willa Cather refracts lesbian desires through gay male identities ? That for Henry James the crucial term " ironic " seems to have been an epithet that referred to lesbian sexuality ? That John Waters's movies insistently stage the ...
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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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