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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... gender - dissonant tastes , behavior , body language . In one sur- vey 26 percent of young gay men had been forced to leave home because of conflicts with parents over their sexual identity ; 4 another report con- cludes that young gays ...
... gender - dissonant tastes , behavior , body language . In one sur- vey 26 percent of young gay men had been forced to leave home because of conflicts with parents over their sexual identity ; 4 another report con- cludes that young gays ...
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. sure , in 1991 a survey of adolescent sexual behavior is defunded . Under the threat of congressional pressure , support for all research on sexuality ... identity " survivor " must be to the undiminishing currents of ...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. sure , in 1991 a survey of adolescent sexual behavior is defunded . Under the threat of congressional pressure , support for all research on sexuality ... identity " survivor " must be to the undiminishing currents of ...
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... sexual dyad a legal unit based on state - regulated marriage a circuit of ... identity to quite differing degrees ( e.g. , no use at all for worship ... sexual www . identity , something that the common sense of our time • Queer and Now.
... sexual dyad a legal unit based on state - regulated marriage a circuit of ... identity to quite differing degrees ( e.g. , no use at all for worship ... sexual www . identity , something that the common sense of our time • Queer and Now.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. identity , something that the common sense of our time presents as a uni- tary category . Yet , exerting any pressure at all on " sexual identity , " you see that its elements include your biological ( e.g. ...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. identity , something that the common sense of our time presents as a uni- tary category . Yet , exerting any pressure at all on " sexual identity , " you see that its elements include your biological ( e.g. ...
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... sexual identity " is supposed to organize into a seamless and univocal whole . And if it doesn't ? That's one of the things that " queer " can refer to : the open mesh of possibilities , gaps , overlaps , dissonances and resonances ...
... sexual identity " is supposed to organize into a seamless and univocal whole . And if it doesn't ? That's one of the things that " queer " can refer to : the open mesh of possibilities , gaps , overlaps , dissonances and resonances ...
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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