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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... body , " and so on ) that see queer people as uniquely situated be- tween genders ; and forms of the trope of gender separatism , under which it seems only common sense that people of the same gender , people grouped together under the ...
... body , " and so on ) that see queer people as uniquely situated be- tween genders ; and forms of the trope of gender separatism , under which it seems only common sense that people of the same gender , people grouped together under the ...
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... bodies , as care- givers , as activists . But my illness has strengthened and , for me , qualita- tively changed many of these relationships . Simon Watney , to let one such friend stand for many , is a challenge as he is an inspiration ...
... bodies , as care- givers , as activists . But my illness has strengthened and , for me , qualita- tively changed many of these relationships . Simon Watney , to let one such friend stand for many , is a challenge as he is an inspiration ...
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... body language . In one sur- vey 26 percent of young gay men had been forced to leave home because of conflicts with parents over their sexual identity ; 4 another report con- cludes that young gays and lesbians , many of them throwaways ...
... body language . In one sur- vey 26 percent of young gay men had been forced to leave home because of conflicts with parents over their sexual identity ; 4 another report con- cludes that young gays and lesbians , many of them throwaways ...
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... body in the face of its spontaneous and endogenous threat against itself ) . Problematics of undecidability present themselves in a new , unfacile 11. That deconstruction can offer crucial resources of thought for survival under duress ...
... body in the face of its spontaneous and endogenous threat against itself ) . Problematics of undecidability present themselves in a new , unfacile 11. That deconstruction can offer crucial resources of thought for survival under duress ...
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... body can't be made to line up neatly together . It's probably not surprising that gender is so strongly , so ... Bodies , Ourselves : Updated and Expanded for the Nineties ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1992 ) . An immensely important ...
... body can't be made to line up neatly together . It's probably not surprising that gender is so strongly , so ... Bodies , Ourselves : Updated and Expanded for the Nineties ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1992 ) . An immensely important ...
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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