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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... desire .... Gender - separatist models would thus place the woman - loving woman and the man - loving man each at ... desires through gay male identities ? That for Henry James the crucial term " ironic " seems to have been an epithet ...
... desire .... Gender - separatist models would thus place the woman - loving woman and the man - loving man each at ... desires through gay male identities ? That for Henry James the crucial term " ironic " seems to have been an epithet ...
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... desire to save and pro- long my life stronger than was my own . " Living with Michael is a virtually nonstop Scheherazade party . Underlying his brilliance is an outrageous gift of being interested in the whole world and soliciting the ...
... desire to save and pro- long my life stronger than was my own . " Living with Michael is a virtually nonstop Scheherazade party . Underlying his brilliance is an outrageous gift of being interested in the whole world and soliciting the ...
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... desires , activities , children . The routine denial to sexually active adolescents , straight and gay , of the things they need — intelligible information , support and respect , condoms -- to protect themselves from HIV transmission ...
... desires , activities , children . The routine denial to sexually active adolescents , straight and gay , of the things they need — intelligible information , support and respect , condoms -- to protect themselves from HIV transmission ...
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... desires visible ; to make the tacit things explicit ; to smuggle queer representation in where it must be smuggled and , with the relative freedom of adulthood , to challenge queer- eradicating impulses frontally where they are to be so ...
... desires visible ; to make the tacit things explicit ; to smuggle queer representation in where it must be smuggled and , with the relative freedom of adulthood , to challenge queer- eradicating impulses frontally where they are to be so ...
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... desires and identifications that move across gender lines , including the desires of men for women and of women for ... desire , but rather at ren- dering those culturally central , apparently monolithic constructions newly accessible ...
... desires and identifications that move across gender lines , including the desires of men for women and of women for ... desire , but rather at ren- dering those culturally central , apparently monolithic constructions newly accessible ...
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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