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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... MARKED INFLUENCE OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ON THE FRICTION AND WEAR CHARACTERISTICS OF COBALT AND COBALT BASE ALLOYS IN VACUUM TO 10-9 MILLIMETER OF MERCURY . II - COBALT ALLOYS . Donald H. Buckley and Robert L. Johnson . December 1964. 8p ...
... MARKED INFLUENCE OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ON THE FRICTION AND WEAR CHARACTERISTICS OF COBALT AND COBALT BASE ALLOYS IN VACUUM TO 10-9 MILLIMETER OF MERCURY . II - COBALT ALLOYS . Donald H. Buckley and Robert L. Johnson . December 1964. 8p ...
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Poems Charles Bachman. A Marked Peculiarity “There is one marked peculiarity about this paper. . . .” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Something strange emborders the normal of this piece of verse as it unwinds. I feel a ...
Poems Charles Bachman. A Marked Peculiarity “There is one marked peculiarity about this paper. . . .” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Something strange emborders the normal of this piece of verse as it unwinds. I feel a ...
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... marked and sealed in Christ by the Holy Spirit. A curse can very well be a mark on someone's life, and when one comes to Jesus, they are marked by the Lord. The Bible says that when Cain was marked, everyone knew not to kill him because ...
... marked and sealed in Christ by the Holy Spirit. A curse can very well be a mark on someone's life, and when one comes to Jesus, they are marked by the Lord. The Bible says that when Cain was marked, everyone knew not to kill him because ...
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... marked for mayhem, but I'm making up my mind. Realizing recovery. Discovering a newly directed determination ... Marked for mayhem yet punishing my pride. Ready to revisit recovery. Self-Destruction, Main Distraction, the Reaction, Then ...
... marked for mayhem, but I'm making up my mind. Realizing recovery. Discovering a newly directed determination ... Marked for mayhem yet punishing my pride. Ready to revisit recovery. Self-Destruction, Main Distraction, the Reaction, Then ...
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... marked for death not just me , but all of Western civilization . We must , in the words of Revolutionary War veteran General John Stark , “ Live free or die . " CHAPTER TWO On Freedom The precept of the Koran is, 6 MARKED FOR DEATH.
... marked for death not just me , but all of Western civilization . We must , in the words of Revolutionary War veteran General John Stark , “ Live free or die . " CHAPTER TWO On Freedom The precept of the Koran is, 6 MARKED FOR DEATH.
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.