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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... courses students have , unfortunately , learned to re- linquish the expectation that the course material will address them where they live and with material they can hold palpably accountable ; in gay / les- bian courses , though , such ...
... courses students have , unfortunately , learned to re- linquish the expectation that the course material will address them where they live and with material they can hold palpably accountable ; in gay / les- bian courses , though , such ...
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... courses , that the path to every issue we discussed simply had to take the arduous defile through textual interpretation ... course evisioning an enrollment of mostly lesbian and gay students . Their sense of entitlement as straight ...
... courses , that the path to every issue we discussed simply had to take the arduous defile through textual interpretation ... course evisioning an enrollment of mostly lesbian and gay students . Their sense of entitlement as straight ...
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... course the list could go on . Looking at my own life , I see that — prob- ably like most people — I have valued and pursued these various elements of family identity to quite differing degrees ( e.g. , no use at all for worship , much ...
... course the list could go on . Looking at my own life , I see that — prob- ably like most people — I have valued and pursued these various elements of family identity to quite differing degrees ( e.g. , no use at all for worship , much ...
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... course , the array of practices and pleasures continued to be referred to [ heterosexual monogamy ] as their internal standard ; but it was spo- ken of less and less , or in any case with a growing moderation . Efforts to find out its ...
... course , the array of practices and pleasures continued to be referred to [ heterosexual monogamy ] as their internal standard ; but it was spo- ken of less and less , or in any case with a growing moderation . Efforts to find out its ...
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... course of the 19805 . As , indeed , had been my own life and those of most of the people closest to me . " Why me ? " is the cri de coeur that is popularly supposed to rep- resent Everywoman's deepest response to a breast cancer ...
... course of the 19805 . As , indeed , had been my own life and those of most of the people closest to me . " Why me ? " is the cri de coeur that is popularly supposed to rep- resent Everywoman's deepest response to a breast cancer ...
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.