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Tendencies

Tendencies 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
Print Book, English, 1993
Duke University Press, Durham, 1993
xvi, 281 pages ; 24 cm
9780822314219, 9780822381860, 9780822314080, 0822314215, 0822381869, 0822314088
982205936
Queer and now
Privilege of unknowing: Diderot's the Nun
Tales of the avunculate: the Importance of being Earnest
Is the rectum straight?: Identification and identity in the Wings of the dove
Memorial for Craig Owens
Jane Austen and the masturbating girl
Epidemics of the will
Nationalisms and sexualities: as opposed to what?
How to bring your kids up gay: the war on effeminate boys
Willa Cather and others
A poem is being written
Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion (written with Michael Moon)
White glasses
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