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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... , desiring ca- thexis and cognition . On the scene of national gay / lesbian activism , in the Village Voice , in the ' zines , on the streets and even in some class- rooms , I suppose this must be called the moment FOREWORD: T TIMES.
... , desiring ca- thexis and cognition . On the scene of national gay / lesbian activism , in the Village Voice , in the ' zines , on the streets and even in some class- rooms , I suppose this must be called the moment FOREWORD: T TIMES.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. rooms , I suppose this must be called the moment of Queer . ( Though it's other moments , too . Right now : the moment just before the inauguration of an ostentatiously heterosexual president who makes an audible ...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. rooms , I suppose this must be called the moment of Queer . ( Though it's other moments , too . Right now : the moment just before the inauguration of an ostentatiously heterosexual president who makes an audible ...
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... and succor — from the lockstep of their unanimity in the system called " family . " Or think of all the elements that are condensed in the notion of sexual identity , something that the common sense of our time 6 Queer and Now.
... and succor — from the lockstep of their unanimity in the system called " family . " Or think of all the elements that are condensed in the notion of sexual identity , something that the common sense of our time 6 Queer and Now.
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... called Y - ME ! Yet " Why me ? " was not something it could have occurred to me to ask in a world where so many companions of my own age were already dealing with fear , debilitation , and death . I wonder , too , whether it char ...
... called Y - ME ! Yet " Why me ? " was not something it could have occurred to me to ask in a world where so many companions of my own age were already dealing with fear , debilitation , and death . I wonder , too , whether it char ...
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... CALLED RESSENTIMENT There was something espe- cially devastating about the wave of anti- " PC " journalism in the abso- lutely open contempt it displayed , and propagated , for every tool that has been so painstakingly assembled in the ...
... CALLED RESSENTIMENT There was something espe- cially devastating about the wave of anti- " PC " journalism in the abso- lutely open contempt it displayed , and propagated , for every tool that has been so painstakingly assembled in the ...
Contents
DIDEROTS THE NUN | 23 |
QUEER TUTELAGE IN THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST | 52 |
IS THE RECTUM STRAIGHT? IDENTIFICATION AND IDENTITY IN THE WINGS OF THE DOVE | 73 |
MEMORIAL FOR CRAIG OWENS | 104 |
CROSSING OF DISCOURSES | 107 |
JANE AUSTEN AND THE MASTURBATING GIRL | 109 |
EPIDEMICS OF THE WILL | 130 |
AS OPPOSED TO WHAT? | 143 |
ACROSS GENDERS ACROSS SEXUALITIES | 165 |
WILLA GATHER AND OTHERS | 167 |
A POEM IS BEING WRITTEN | 177 |
A DOSSIER A PERFORMANCE PIECE A LITTLEUNDERSTOOD EMOTION | 215 |
WHITE GLASSES | 252 |
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THE WAR ON EFFEMINATE BOYS | 154 |
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Page 8 - At the same time, a lot of the most exciting recent work around "queer" spins the term outward along dimensions that can't be subsumed under gender and sexuality at all: the ways that race, ethnicity, postcolonial nationality criss-cross with these and other identity-constituting, identityfracturing discourses, for example.