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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... cultural site because of an enduring incoherence about whether it is to be thought of as an issue only for a minority of ... culture . The other hypothesis proffered in Epistemology , though , but not much explored there , is that modern ...
... cultural site because of an enduring incoherence about whether it is to be thought of as an issue only for a minority of ... culture . The other hypothesis proffered in Epistemology , though , but not much explored there , is that modern ...
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... culture has of denying and despoiling queer energies and lives . I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work , and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle . Everyone who survived has stories about how ...
... culture has of denying and despoiling queer energies and lives . I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work , and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle . Everyone who survived has stories about how ...
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... culture , and sustaining relations of adults they know who may be queer . The complicity of parents , of teachers , of clergy , even of the mental health professions in invalidating and hounding kids who show gender - dissonant tastes ...
... culture , and sustaining relations of adults they know who may be queer . The complicity of parents , of teachers , of clergy , even of the mental health professions in invalidating and hounding kids who show gender - dissonant tastes ...
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... cultural objects , objects of high or popular culture or both , objects whose meaning seemed mysterious , excessive , or oblique in relation to the codes most readily available to us , became a prime resource for survival . We needed ...
... cultural objects , objects of high or popular culture or both , objects whose meaning seemed mysterious , excessive , or oblique in relation to the codes most readily available to us , became a prime resource for survival . We needed ...
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... cultures unfolded as if anthropologically in formats specifically designed — designed from the ground up — for maximum legi- bility to themselves : they felt they shouldn't so much as have to slow down the Mercedes to read the ...
... cultures unfolded as if anthropologically in formats specifically designed — designed from the ground up — for maximum legi- bility to themselves : they felt they shouldn't so much as have to slow down the Mercedes to read the ...
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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