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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... supposed never to learn this , that , farther along , the road widens and the air brightens ; that in the big world there are worlds where it's plausible , our demand to get used to it . EPISTEMOLOOIES I've heard of many people who ...
... supposed never to learn this , that , farther along , the road widens and the air brightens ; that in the big world there are worlds where it's plausible , our demand to get used to it . EPISTEMOLOOIES I've heard of many people who ...
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... ( supposed to correspond to your sex and gender ) ; the biological sex of your preferred partner ; the gender assignment of your preferred partner ( supposed to be the same as her / his biological sex ) ; the masculinity or femininity of ...
... ( supposed to correspond to your sex and gender ) ; the biological sex of your preferred partner ; the gender assignment of your preferred partner ( supposed to be the same as her / his biological sex ) ; the masculinity or femininity of ...
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... supposed to organize into a seamless and univocal whole . And if it doesn't ? That's one of the things that " queer " can refer to : the open mesh of possibilities , gaps , overlaps , dissonances and resonances , lapses and ex- cesses ...
... supposed to organize into a seamless and univocal whole . And if it doesn't ? That's one of the things that " queer " can refer to : the open mesh of possibilities , gaps , overlaps , dissonances and resonances , lapses and ex- cesses ...
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... supposed oppo- sitions that structure an experience of the " self " ? — the part and the whole ( when cancer so dramatically corrodes that distinction ) ; safety and danger ( when fewer than half of the women diagnosed with breast ...
... supposed oppo- sitions that structure an experience of the " self " ? — the part and the whole ( when cancer so dramatically corrodes that distinction ) ; safety and danger ( when fewer than half of the women diagnosed with breast ...
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... supposed to pose unique challenges to 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 ...
... supposed to pose unique challenges to 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 ...
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.