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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... York : Zone , 1992 ) , pp . 582–95 , and is reprinted by permission . " Nationalisms and Sexualities " previously appeared in Andrew Parker , Mary Russo , Doris Sommer , and Patricia Yaeger , eds . , Nationalisms and Sexualities ( New York ...
... York : Zone , 1992 ) , pp . 582–95 , and is reprinted by permission . " Nationalisms and Sexualities " previously appeared in Andrew Parker , Mary Russo , Doris Sommer , and Patricia Yaeger , eds . , Nationalisms and Sexualities ( New York ...
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. FOREWORD T TIMES At the 1992 gay pride parade in New York City , there was a handsome , intensely muscular man in full leather regalia , sporting on his distended chest a T - shirt that read , Keep YOUR LAWS OFF OF ...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. FOREWORD T TIMES At the 1992 gay pride parade in New York City , there was a handsome , intensely muscular man in full leather regalia , sporting on his distended chest a T - shirt that read , Keep YOUR LAWS OFF OF ...
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... York pride march has massive participation by African Americans and Latinos . When people organize around claiming the label bisexual ; or the right to be les- bian and gay soldiers ; or the right to have their children not protected ...
... York pride march has massive participation by African Americans and Latinos . When people organize around claiming the label bisexual ; or the right to be les- bian and gay soldiers ; or the right to have their children not protected ...
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... Sexuality , vol . 1 : An Introduction , trans . Robert Hurley ( New York : Pantheon Books , 1978 ) , pp . 38-40 . 9. Ibid . , p . 61 . Family , Domesticity , and Population , heterosexuality has been 10 Queer and Now.
... Sexuality , vol . 1 : An Introduction , trans . Robert Hurley ( New York : Pantheon Books , 1978 ) , pp . 38-40 . 9. Ibid . , p . 61 . Family , Domesticity , and Population , heterosexuality has been 10 Queer and Now.
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... sexuality and gender is much indebted to Judith Butler's Gender Trouble ; Feminism and the Subversion of Identity ( New York : Routledge , 1989 ) . PROJECT 3 This project involves thinking and writing about something Queer and Now 11.
... sexuality and gender is much indebted to Judith Butler's Gender Trouble ; Feminism and the Subversion of Identity ( New York : Routledge , 1989 ) . PROJECT 3 This project involves thinking and writing about something Queer and Now 11.
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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