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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... one's own . With or without that heterosexist as- sumption , though , what's striking is the number and difference of the di- mensions that " sexual identity " is supposed to organize into a seamless and univocal whole . And if it doesn ...
... one's own . With or without that heterosexist as- sumption , though , what's striking is the number and difference of the di- mensions that " sexual identity " is supposed to organize into a seamless and univocal whole . And if it doesn ...
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... one's sense of " femininity , " nonetheless plunges one into an experience of almost archetypal Femaleness . Judith Frank is the friend whom I like to think of as Betty Ford to my Happy Rockefeller — the friend , that is , whose ...
... one's sense of " femininity , " nonetheless plunges one into an experience of almost archetypal Femaleness . Judith Frank is the friend whom I like to think of as Betty Ford to my Happy Rockefeller — the friend , that is , whose ...
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... one's illness ( which is to say , the grain of one's own intellectual , emotional , bodily self as refracted through illness and as resistant to it ) —being available for identification to friends , but as well to people who don't love ...
... one's illness ( which is to say , the grain of one's own intellectual , emotional , bodily self as refracted through illness and as resistant to it ) —being available for identification to friends , but as well to people who don't love ...
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... one's own bodily illness and need , all the brutality of a society's big and tiny deci- sions , explicit and encoded ones , about which lives have or have not value . Those decisions carry not only institutional and economic but psychic ...
... one's own bodily illness and need , all the brutality of a society's big and tiny deci- sions , explicit and encoded ones , about which lives have or have not value . Those decisions carry not only institutional and economic but psychic ...
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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.