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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... relationship can accomplish . ( Yes , as a matter of fact this is a plug to prospective series authors . } Shannon Van Wey kindly maintains my head at the proper small size . Rita Kosofsky gives me a motive for these projects , as her ...
... relationship can accomplish . ( Yes , as a matter of fact this is a plug to prospective series authors . } Shannon Van Wey kindly maintains my head at the proper small size . Rita Kosofsky gives me a motive for these projects , as her ...
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... 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 , behavior , body language ...
... 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 , behavior , body language ...
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... relation to the codes most readily available to us , became a prime resource for survival . We needed for there to be sites where the meanings didn't line up tidily with each other , and we learned to invest those sites with fascination ...
... relation to the codes most readily available to us , became a prime resource for survival . We needed for there to be sites where the meanings didn't line up tidily with each other , and we learned to invest those sites with fascination ...
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... relation to queer experience . WHITE NIGHTS The first lesbian and gay studies class I taught was in the English Department at Amherst College in 1986. 1 thought I knew which five or six students ( mostly queer ) would show up , and I ...
... relation to queer experience . WHITE NIGHTS The first lesbian and gay studies class I taught was in the English Department at Amherst College in 1986. 1 thought I knew which five or six students ( mostly queer ) would show up , and I ...
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... relations ( supposed to be low if you are female or feminine , high if male or masculine ) ; the people from whom you learn about your own gender and sex ( sup- posed to correspond to yourself in both respects ) ; your community of ...
... relations ( supposed to be low if you are female or feminine , high if male or masculine ) ; the people from whom you learn about your own gender and sex ( sup- posed to correspond to yourself in both respects ) ; your community 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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