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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... instance , as many as 34 percent of the gay men under twenty - five being tested — and 54 percent of the young black gay men — are now HIV infected . ) 3 The systematic sepa- ration of children from queer adults ; their systematic ...
... instance , as many as 34 percent of the gay men under twenty - five being tested — and 54 percent of the young black gay men — are now HIV infected . ) 3 The systematic sepa- ration of children from queer adults ; their systematic ...
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... instance , and that it is implicated with each person's sense of overall identity in similar ways ; that each person's most characteristic erotic expression will be oriented toward another per- son and not autoerotic ; that if it is ...
... instance , and that it is implicated with each person's sense of overall identity in similar ways ; that each person's most characteristic erotic expression will be oriented toward another per- son and not autoerotic ; that if it is ...
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... instance , if the semantic force of a word like " queer " is so different in a first - person from what it is in a second- or third - person sentence ? My sense is that , in a span of thought that arches at least from Plato to Foucault ...
... instance , if the semantic force of a word like " queer " is so different in a first - person from what it is in a second- or third - person sentence ? My sense is that , in a span of thought that arches at least from Plato to Foucault ...
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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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