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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... Gender , Across Sexuality : Willa Cather and Others , " in South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 ( Winter 1989 ) : 53— 71 , © 1989 by Duke University Press . " A Poem Is Being Written " previously appeared in Representations 17 ( Winter 1987 ) ...
... Gender , Across Sexuality : Willa Cather and Others , " in South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 ( Winter 1989 ) : 53— 71 , © 1989 by Duke University Press . " A Poem Is Being Written " previously appeared in Representations 17 ( Winter 1987 ) ...
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... Genders , Across Sexualities Willa Cather and Others 167 A Poem Is Being Written 177 Divinity : A Dossier , A Performance Piece , A Little- Understood Emotion ( written with Michael Moon ) 215 White Glasses 252 Bibliography 267 Index ...
... Genders , Across Sexualities Willa Cather and Others 167 A Poem Is Being Written 177 Divinity : A Dossier , A Performance Piece , A Little- Understood Emotion ( written with Michael Moon ) 215 White Glasses 252 Bibliography 267 Index ...
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... genders , across sexuali- ties , across genres , across " perversions . " ( The book itself would have had an " across " subtitle , but I just ... gender models : forms of the in- version trope ( in which a gay man represents " xii Foreword.
... genders , across sexuali- ties , across genres , across " perversions . " ( The book itself would have had an " across " subtitle , but I just ... gender models : forms of the in- version trope ( in which a gay man represents " xii Foreword.
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... genders ; and forms of the trope of gender separatism , under which it seems only common sense that people of the same gender , people grouped together under the single most determinate diacritical mark of social organization , people ...
... genders ; and forms of the trope of gender separatism , under which it seems only common sense that people of the same gender , people grouped together under the single most determinate diacritical mark of social organization , people ...
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... gender - dissonant tastes , behavior , body language . In one sur- vey z6 percent of young gay men had been forced to leave home because of conflicts with parents over their sexual identity ; another report con- cludes that young gays ...
... gender - dissonant tastes , behavior , body language . In one sur- vey z6 percent of young gay men had been forced to leave home because of conflicts with parents over their sexual identity ; another report con- cludes that young gays ...
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.