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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... lives unlost . A few more people to mention . For years now I've been peculiarly lucky in the matter of fairy godmothers ; they've included Jim Kincaid , Helen Vendler , Barbara Herrnstein Smith , Neil Hertz , and Liz Clark , and I ...
... lives unlost . A few more people to mention . For years now I've been peculiarly lucky in the matter of fairy godmothers ; they've included Jim Kincaid , Helen Vendler , Barbara Herrnstein Smith , Neil Hertz , and Liz Clark , and I ...
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... lives . I look at my adult 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 —an outgrown anguish Remembered , as the Mile ...
... lives . I look at my adult 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 —an outgrown anguish Remembered , as the Mile ...
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... lives , culture , and sustaining relations of adults they know who may be queer . The complicity of parents , of teachers , of clergy , even of the mental health professions in invalidating and hounding kids who show gender - dissonant ...
... lives , culture , and sustaining relations of adults they know who may be queer . The complicity of parents , of teachers , of clergy , even of the mental health professions in invalidating and hounding kids who show gender - dissonant ...
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... live and with material they can hold palpably accountable ; in gay / les- bian courses , though , such expectations seem to rebound , clamorous and unchastened , in all their rawness . Especially considering the history of de- negation ...
... live and with material they can hold palpably accountable ; in gay / les- bian courses , though , such expectations seem to rebound , clamorous and unchastened , in all their rawness . Especially considering the history of de- negation ...
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... lives , histories , cultures unfolded as if anthropologically in formats specifically designed — designed from the ground up — for maximum legi- bility to themselves : they felt they shouldn't so much as have to slow down the Mercedes ...
... lives , histories , cultures unfolded as if anthropologically in formats specifically designed — designed from the ground up — for maximum legi- bility to themselves : they felt they shouldn't so much as have to slow down the Mercedes ...
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.