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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... about gender . Spe- cifically , I suggest in Epistemology that current " common sense " about homosexuality involves two contradictory gender models : forms of the in- version trope ( in which a gay man represents " xii Foreword.
... about gender . Spe- cifically , I suggest in Epistemology that current " common sense " about homosexuality involves two contradictory gender models : forms of the in- version trope ( in which a gay man represents " xii Foreword.
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... 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- edges may have so ...
... 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- edges may have so ...
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... sense of a simple , settled congratulatory " I , " on the one hand , nor on the other a fragmented postmodernist postindividual — never mind an unreliable narrator . No , " 1 " is a heuristic ; maybe a powerful one . Tendencies ought to ...
... sense of a simple , settled congratulatory " I , " on the one hand , nor on the other a fragmented postmodernist postindividual — never mind an unreliable narrator . No , " 1 " is a heuristic ; maybe a powerful one . Tendencies ought to ...
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... sense of privilege in the friendship of a variety of men and women constrained by debility or love to deal closely with HIV — in their own bodies , as care- givers , as activists . But my illness has strengthened and , for me , qualita ...
... sense of privilege in the friendship of a variety of men and women constrained by debility or love to deal closely with HIV — in their own bodies , as care- givers , as activists . But my illness has strengthened and , for me , qualita ...
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... senses ) my kind . The reading prac- tice founded on such basic demands and intuitions had necessarily to run against the grain of the most patent available formulae for young people's reading and life — against the grain , often , of ...
... senses ) my kind . The reading prac- tice founded on such basic demands and intuitions had necessarily to run against the grain of the most patent available formulae for young people's reading and life — against the grain , often , 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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