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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... seems to amplify ( ampli- fies by drowning it out ? ) the little , stubborn current of an individual narrative or obsession , an individual wellspring of narrow , desiring ca- thexis and cognition . On the scene of national gay ...
... seems to amplify ( ampli- fies by drowning it out ? ) the little , stubborn current of an individual narrative or obsession , an individual wellspring of narrow , desiring ca- thexis and cognition . On the scene of national gay ...
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... seems only common sense that people of the same gender , people grouped together under the single most determinate diacritical mark of social organization , people whose economic , institutional , emotional , physical needs and knowl ...
... seems only common sense that people of the same gender , people grouped together under the single most determinate diacritical mark of social organization , people whose economic , institutional , emotional , physical needs and knowl ...
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... seem to have invented for themselves , in the spontaneity of great need , the tools for a formalist ap- prehension of other less prestigious , more ubiquitous kinds of text : genre movies , advertising , comic strips . For me , this ...
... seem to have invented for themselves , in the spontaneity of great need , the tools for a formalist ap- prehension of other less prestigious , more ubiquitous kinds of text : genre movies , advertising , comic strips . For me , this ...
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... seem to cluster around the category . But " gay " and " lesbian " still present themselves ( however de- lusively ) as objective , empirical categories governed by empirical rules of evidence ( however contested ) . " Queer " seems to ...
... seem to cluster around the category . But " gay " and " lesbian " still present themselves ( however de- lusively ) as objective , empirical categories governed by empirical rules of evidence ( however contested ) . " Queer " seems to ...
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... seems as though this silent , normative , uninterrogated " regular " heterosexuality may not function as a sexuality at all . Think of how a culturally central concept like public / pri- vate is organized so as to preserve for ...
... seems as though this silent , normative , uninterrogated " regular " heterosexuality may not function as a sexuality at all . Think of how a culturally central concept like public / pri- vate is organized so as to preserve for ...
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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