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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... friends . Next book , I tell myself , I'll shut up about the mishpocheh . But why ? These paragraphs are about ... friends you went into it with . My experience over the past two years has been different from that : there have been ...
... friends . Next book , I tell myself , I'll shut up about the mishpocheh . But why ? These paragraphs are about ... friends you went into it with . My experience over the past two years has been different from that : there have been ...
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... friendship of a variety of men and women constrained by debility or love to deal closely with HIV β in their own ... friend stand for many , is a challenge as he is an inspiration , his accomplish- ment representable only in the silent ...
... friendship of a variety of men and women constrained by debility or love to deal closely with HIV β in their own ... friend stand for many , is a challenge as he is an inspiration , his accomplish- ment representable only in the silent ...
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... friendship are farthest beyond price . No praise is more validating than his , no severity more instructive , no kindness more penetrating . I've always known about Hal the same quite unlikely thing that , in Proust , the narrator knows ...
... friendship are farthest beyond price . No praise is more validating than his , no severity more instructive , no kindness more penetrating . I've always known about Hal the same quite unlikely thing that , in Proust , the narrator knows ...
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... friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work , and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle . Everyone who survived has stories about how it was done βan outgrown anguish Remembered , as the Mile Our panting Ankle barely ...
... friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work , and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle . Everyone who survived has stories about how it was done βan outgrown anguish Remembered , as the Mile Our panting Ankle barely ...
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... friend whom I like to think of as Betty Ford to my Happy Rockefeller β the friend , that is , whose decision to be ... friends , advisors , visitors , students , lovers , correspondents , relatives , caregivers ( these being anything ...
... friend whom I like to think of as Betty Ford to my Happy Rockefeller β the friend , that is , whose decision to be ... friends , advisors , visitors , students , lovers , correspondents , relatives , caregivers ( these being anything ...
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.β