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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... 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 - applied by many , many women ; Dyke and ...
... 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 - applied by many , many women ; Dyke and ...
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... woman - loving woman and the man - loving man each at the " natu- ral " defining center of their own gender , again ... women and men who love her ? These are essays in a variety of modes , but several of them also have an experimental ...
... woman - loving woman and the man - loving man each at the " natu- ral " defining center of their own gender , again ... women and men who love her ? These are essays in a variety of modes , but several of them also have an experimental ...
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... 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- tively changed many of these relationships . Simon Watney ...
... 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- tively changed many of these relationships . Simon Watney ...
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... t surprise me when straight and gay students , or women and men students , or religious and nonreligious students have bones to pick with each other or with me . What has surprised me more is how divisive issues of 4 Queer and Now.
... t surprise me when straight and gay students , or women and men students , or religious and nonreligious students have bones to pick with each other or with me . What has surprised me more is how divisive issues of 4 Queer and Now.
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... women and men are more like each other than chalk is like cheese , than ratiocination is like raisins , than up is like down , or than i is like o . The biological , psychological , and cognitive attributes of men over- lap with those ...
... women and men are more like each other than chalk is like cheese , than ratiocination is like raisins , than up is like down , or than i is like o . The biological , psychological , and cognitive attributes of men over- lap with those ...
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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