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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... thought of as an issue only for a minority of ( distinctly lesbian or gay ) individuals , or instead as an issue that cuts across every locus of agency and subjectivity in the culture . The other hypothesis proffered in Epistemology ...
... thought of as an issue only for a minority of ( distinctly lesbian or gay ) individuals , or instead as an issue that cuts across every locus of agency and subjectivity in the culture . The other hypothesis proffered in Epistemology ...
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... thought . It's been wonderful to have access to it . Katie Kent and Mandy Berry are two whose invaluable contributions to this book ( editorial , critical , emotional ) have been even more direct . Finally , there are my dear companions ...
... thought . It's been wonderful to have access to it . Katie Kent and Mandy Berry are two whose invaluable contributions to this book ( editorial , critical , emotional ) have been even more direct . Finally , there are my dear companions ...
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. thought — most uncompromising reading : it's hard to say which aspects of Jon's friendship are farthest beyond price . No praise is more validating than his , no severity more instructive , no kindness more ...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. thought — most uncompromising reading : it's hard to say which aspects of Jon's friendship are farthest beyond price . No praise is more validating than his , no severity more instructive , no kindness more ...
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... thought I knew which five or six students ( mostly queer ) would show up , and I designed the course , with them in mind , as a seminar that would meet one evening a week , at my house . The first evening sixty - five students showed up ...
... thought I knew which five or six students ( mostly queer ) would show up , and I designed the course , with them in mind , as a seminar that would meet one evening a week , at my house . The first evening sixty - five students showed up ...
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... thought about it . The depressing thing about the Christmas season — isn't it ? —is that it's the time when all the institutions are speaking with one voice . The Church says what the Church says . But the State says the same thing ...
... thought about it . The depressing thing about the Christmas season — isn't it ? —is that it's the time when all the institutions are speaking with one voice . The Church says what the Church says . But the State says the same thing ...
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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