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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... sexual identities , but it was really organized around only one of them ; the other is the concern of most of the Tendencies essays . I hypothesized in Epistemology of the Closet that modern homo / hetero- sexual definition has become ...
... sexual identities , but it was really organized around only one of them ; the other is the concern of most of the Tendencies essays . I hypothesized in Epistemology of the Closet that modern homo / hetero- sexual definition has become ...
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... sexual desire .... Gender - separatist models would thus place the woman - loving woman and the man - loving man ... sexually dissident loves and identities in a complex social ecology where the presence of different genders , different ...
... sexual desire .... Gender - separatist models would thus place the woman - loving woman and the man - loving man ... sexually dissident loves and identities in a complex social ecology where the presence of different genders , different ...
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... sexual identity ; another report con- cludes that young gays and lesbians , many of them throwaways , comprise as many as a quarter of all homeless youth in the United States . And adults ' systematic denial of these truths to ourselves ...
... sexual identity ; another report con- cludes that young gays and lesbians , many of them throwaways , comprise as many as a quarter of all homeless youth in the United States . And adults ' systematic denial of these truths to ourselves ...
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. sure , in 1991 a survey of adolescent sexual behavior is defunded . Under the threat of congressional pressure , support for all research on sexuality sud- denly ( in the fall of 1991 ) dries up . Seemingly , this ...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. sure , in 1991 a survey of adolescent sexual behavior is defunded . Under the threat of congressional pressure , support for all research on sexuality sud- denly ( in the fall of 1991 ) dries up . Seemingly , this ...
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... sexual dyad a legal unit based on state - regulated marriage a circuit of blood relationships a system of companionship and succor a building a proscenium between " private " and " public " an economic unit of earning and taxation the ...
... sexual dyad a legal unit based on state - regulated marriage a circuit of blood relationships a system of companionship and succor a building a proscenium between " private " and " public " an economic unit of earning and taxation the ...
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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