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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... turn - of - the - century - looking women in a passionate clinch . Most of the people wearing the ver- sion with the osculating male sailors , on the other hand , were lesbians , Faggot and Big Fag were the T - shirt legends self ...
... turn - of - the - century - looking women in a passionate clinch . Most of the people wearing the ver- sion with the osculating male sailors , on the other hand , were lesbians , Faggot and Big Fag were the T - shirt legends self ...
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... turns up in the irreducible multilayeredness and multiphasedness of what queer sur- vival means — since being a survivor on this scene is a matter of surviving into threat , stigma , the spiraling violence of gay- and lesbian - bashing ...
... turns up in the irreducible multilayeredness and multiphasedness of what queer sur- vival means — since being a survivor on this scene is a matter of surviving into threat , stigma , the spiraling violence of gay- and lesbian - bashing ...
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... turn , fall in triumphally behind the Christmas phalanx : ad - swollen magazines have oozing turkeys on the cover , while for the news industry every question turns into the Christmas question — Will hostages be free for Christmas ...
... turn , fall in triumphally behind the Christmas phalanx : ad - swollen magazines have oozing turkeys on the cover , while for the news industry every question turns into the Christmas question — Will hostages be free for Christmas ...
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... turning this experience of dealing with cancer , in all its ( and my ) marked historical specificity , and with all the uncircumscribableness of the turbulence and threat involved , back toward a confrontation with the theoretical ...
... turning this experience of dealing with cancer , in all its ( and my ) marked historical specificity , and with all the uncircumscribableness of the turbulence and threat involved , back toward a confrontation with the theoretical ...
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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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