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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... lesbians , Faggot and Big Fag were the T - shirt legends self - applied by many , many women ; Dyke and the more ... lesbian activism , in the Village Voice , in the ' zines , on the streets and even in some class- rooms , ! suppose ...
... lesbians , Faggot and Big Fag were the T - shirt legends self - applied by many , many women ; Dyke and the more ... lesbian activism , in the Village Voice , in the ' zines , on the streets and even in some class- rooms , ! suppose ...
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... lesbian and gay rights . Long moment of a deathly silence that means the AIDS drugs we've been struggling to hold on for are just not in the pipeline . When Melvin Dixon and Tom Yingling disappear from us , and Audre Lorde . When , for ...
... lesbian and gay rights . Long moment of a deathly silence that means the AIDS drugs we've been struggling to hold on for are just not in the pipeline . When Melvin Dixon and Tom Yingling disappear from us , and Audre Lorde . When , for ...
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... lesbian knowledge the synecdoche for all knowledge ? That Willa Cather refracts lesbian desires through gay male identities ? That for Henry James the crucial term " ironic " seems to have been an epithet that referred to lesbian ...
... lesbian knowledge the synecdoche for all knowledge ? That Willa Cather refracts lesbian desires through gay male identities ? That for Henry James the crucial term " ironic " seems to have been an epithet that referred to lesbian ...
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... lesbian ; that a third of lesbian and gay teenagers say they have attempted suicide ; that minority queer adolescents are at even more extreme risk . 1 The knowledge is indelible , but not astonishing , to anyone with a reason to be ...
... lesbian ; that a third of lesbian and gay teenagers say they have attempted suicide ; that minority queer adolescents are at even more extreme risk . 1 The knowledge is indelible , but not astonishing , to anyone with a reason to be ...
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... lesbian and gay adolescents come from a report prepared for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser- vices in ... Lesbian Youth Suicide . " 5. Gibson , " Gay Male and Lesbian Youth Suicide , " pp . 113-15 . sure , in 1991 a survey of ...
... lesbian and gay adolescents come from a report prepared for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser- vices in ... Lesbian Youth Suicide . " 5. Gibson , " Gay Male and Lesbian Youth Suicide , " pp . 113-15 . sure , in 1991 a survey of ...
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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