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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... feels queer , and good — I'm sure I wasn't the only one at the march to have this sensation — when the wave of a broadly based public movement somehow overtakes and seems to amplify ( ampli- fies by drowning it out ? ) the little ...
... feels queer , and good — I'm sure I wasn't the only one at the march to have this sensation — when the wave of a broadly based public movement somehow overtakes and seems to amplify ( ampli- fies by drowning it out ? ) the little ...
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... feel that the survival of each one is a miracle . Everyone who survived has stories about how it was done —an outgrown anguish Remembered , as the Mile Our panting Ankle barely passed— When Night devoured the Road— But we stood ...
... feel that the survival of each one is a miracle . Everyone who survived has stories about how it was done —an outgrown anguish Remembered , as the Mile Our panting Ankle barely passed— When Night devoured the Road— But we stood ...
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... feel like it , display affection freely , while same - sex couples must always conceal it ; while " privacy , " to the degree that it is a right codified in U.S. law , has historically been centered on the protection- from - scrutiny of ...
... feel like it , display affection freely , while same - sex couples must always conceal it ; while " privacy , " to the degree that it is a right codified in U.S. law , has historically been centered on the protection- from - scrutiny of ...
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... feel I've got a quarterly physical coming up — so much less pre- pared to deal with the news that a lump or rash isn't a metastasis than that it is ) ; past and future ( when a person anticipating the possibility of death , and the ...
... feel I've got a quarterly physical coming up — so much less pre- pared to deal with the news that a lump or rash isn't a metastasis than that it is ) ; past and future ( when a person anticipating the possibility of death , and the ...
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... feeling out of it enough that the decision to let this journalism wash over me was hardly a real choice — however I might find myself misspelled , misquoted , mis - paraphrased , or ( in one hallucina- tory account ) married to Stanley ...
... feeling out of it enough that the decision to let this journalism wash over me was hardly a real choice — however I might find myself misspelled , misquoted , mis - paraphrased , or ( in one hallucina- tory account ) married to Stanley ...
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.