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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... Social Text 19 ( 1991 ) : 18-27 , © 1991 by Social Text , and is reprinted by permission . " Willa Cather and Others " first appeared as " Across Gender , Across Sexuality : Willa Cather and Others , " in South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 ...
... Social Text 19 ( 1991 ) : 18-27 , © 1991 by Social Text , and is reprinted by permission . " Willa Cather and Others " first appeared as " Across Gender , Across Sexuality : Willa Cather and Others , " in South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 ...
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... social organization , people whose economic , institutional , emotional , physical needs and knowl- edges may have so much in common , should bond together also on the axis of sexual desire .... Gender - separatist models would thus ...
... social organization , people whose economic , institutional , emotional , physical needs and knowl- edges may have so much in common , should bond together also on the axis of sexual desire .... Gender - separatist models would thus ...
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... social space in which all of the following are meant to line up perfectly with each other : a surname a sexual dyad a legal unit based on state - regulated marriage a circuit of blood relationships a system of companionship and succor a ...
... social space in which all of the following are meant to line up perfectly with each other : a surname a sexual dyad a legal unit based on state - regulated marriage a circuit of blood relationships a system of companionship and succor a ...
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... social and personal histories of exclusion , vio- lence , defiance , excitement — never can only denote ; nor even can it only connote ; a part of its experimental force as a speech act is the way in which it dramatizes locutionary ...
... social and personal histories of exclusion , vio- lence , defiance , excitement — never can only denote ; nor even can it only connote ; a part of its experimental force as a speech act is the way in which it dramatizes locutionary ...
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... social construc- tion of gender to find some way of spending half a year or so as a totally bald woman . ) As a general principle , I don't like the idea of " applying " theoretical models to particular situations or texts — it's always ...
... social construc- tion of gender to find some way of spending half a year or so as a totally bald woman . ) As a general principle , I don't like the idea of " applying " theoretical models to particular situations or texts — it's always ...
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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