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University of Minnesota Press Deep Gossip
Book SynopsisMaps the intricate relationship between culture, politics, and sexuality over three centuries - now in paperback!Trade Review"Provocative. . . Deep Gossip is crafted so well that it is almost certain to become a classic." -Lambda Book ReportTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Deep Gossip Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans Some Speculations on the History of Sexual Intercourse during the Long Eighteenth Century in England From Thoreau to Queer Politics The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History American Studies, Queer Studies New York City Gay Liberation and the Gay Commuters Notes Permissions
£16.14
University of Minnesota Press The Spiv and the Architect Unruly Life in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Social Modernism and Male Homosexuality in Postwar London, 1. Reconstructing Everyday Life in the Atomic Age, 2. The Perversity of the Zigzag: The Criminality of Queer Urban Desire, 3. Trial by Photobooth: The Public Face of the Homosexual Citizen, 4. Of Public Libraries and Paperbacks: The Sexual Geographies of Reading, 5. Life in the Cybernetic Bedsit: Interior Design and the Homosexual Self, Conclusion: City of Any Dream, Acknowledgments, Notes, Index
£17.99
University of Minnesota Press Queer Twin Cities
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£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Spaces between Us
Book SynopsisExplores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United StatesTrade Review"This is a fascinating multi-disciplinary book that analyzes the intricate linkages, appropriations, and productions around discourses of Native and non-Native queer movements of indigeneity and national belonging. Scott Lauria Morgensen is a gifted writer and scholar with an elegant eye for detailed and nuanced analysis." —Martin F. Manalansan, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora"Spaces Between Us is brilliant work that is unceasingly critical, ethical, and illuminating in its research, analysis, and theorization. Morgensen challenges formations of queer settler colonialism in this major intervention undertaken with a critical methodology that has implications for numerous fields." —J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and IndigeneityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Genealogies1. The Biopolitics of Settler Sexuality and Queer Modernities2. Conversations on Berdache: Anthropology, Counterculturism, Two-Spirit OrganizingPart II. Movements3. Authentic Culture and Sexual Rights: Contesting Citizenship in the Settler State4. Ancient Roots through Settled Land: Imagining Indigeneity and Place among Radical Faeries5. Global Desires and Transnational Solidarity: Negotiating Indigeneity among the Worlds of Queer Politics6. “Together We Are Stronger”: Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality in Transnational Native AIDS OrganizingEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Nobody Is Supposed to Know
Book SynopsisSince the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual—has exploded in media and popular culture. C. Riley Snorton traces the emergence and circulation of the down low, demonstrating how these portrayals reinforce troubling perceptions of black sexuality generally. Trade Review"C. Riley Snorton has written a stunning new chapter in queer theory. This book magnificently extends Eve K. Sedgwick’s concept of the closet to grapple with race, sex, and secrecy. Building on concepts like the ‘glass closet’ and examining the dynamics and geographies of the down low, Snorton makes the startling claim that the down low is not a set of hidden practices but that it actually constitutes the staging of the conditions of Black representability. This is a very important book and it will have an immediate impact on the study of race and sexuality." —Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure"Informative and absorbing."—Qualitative SociologyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transpositions1. Down Low Genealogies2. Trapped in the Epistemological Closet3. Black Sexual Syncretism4. Rumor Has ItConclusion: Down Low DiasporasNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Out in Africa LGBT Organizing in Namibia and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Out in Africa is an extremely important book. Ashley Currier broadly addresses factors influencing mobilization of LGBT movements within sub-Saharan Africa at the local, national, and international level. She further extends existing literature on social movements, identity, and development by examining the prospects of mobilization among disadvantaged groups within newly democratized developing countries." —Kathleen Fallon, author of Democracy and the Rise of Women’s Movements in Sub-Saharan AfricaTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronymsIntroduction: How Visibility Matters1. The Rise of LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa2. “This Lesbian Issue”: Navigating Public Visibility as Lesbian Movement Organizations3. Disappearing Acts: Organizational Invisibility in Times of Opportunity4. Homosexuality Is African: Struggles “to Be Seen”Conclusion: Why Visibility MattersMethodological AppendixNotesWorks CitedIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Settler Common Sense
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A sophisticated and rigorous interdisciplinary work, Settler Common Sense is a wonderful, unsettling contribution to American literary studies, native studies, and queer studies." —Beth Piatote, University of California, Berkeley "Mark Rifkin adds to his brilliant collection of work on settler colonialism by challenging the scholarly tendency to frame settler colonialism as a consistent, already made structure or set of logics that people today simply inhabit."—Andrea Smith"A useful starting point for further analysis, laying the groundwork for future scholars to explore how a variety of cultural products—if subtly—encouraged the dispossession of Native Americans during one of the US’s most important periods of physical growth and ideological development."—CHOICE"Rifkin presents clear, fascinating, and focused readings of texts that offer new questions for how queer studies tools can be used in connection with ethics (queer and Indigenous) to read foundational literary texts."—American Literature"Rifkin has opened a necessary dialogue."—The Year’s Work in English Studies"Offers an important reminder of the expropriation and erasure on which nineteenth-century American culture was built, even after 'Indians' have ostensibly vanished from areas like New England and New York."—Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Ordinary Life and the Ethics of Occupation2. Romancing the State of Nature: Speculation, Regeneration, and the Maine Frontier in House of the Seven Gables3. Loving Oneself Like a Nation: Sovereign Selfhood and the Autoerotics of Wilderness in Walden4. Dreaming of Urban Dispersion: Aristocratic Genealogy and Indian Rurality in PierreNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Under Bright Lights Gay Manila and the Global
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Under Bright Lights is a sophisticated, energetic, and highly engaging meditation on the practices of world-making undertaken by what Bobby Benedicto describes as contemporary privileged gay men in Manila." —Martin Joseph Ponce, author of Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading"Benedicto’s deep ethnographic engagement, careful conceptual argument, and lucid prose make this book a critically important contribution and a truly enjoyable read."—Environmental and Planning D: Society and Space"A landmark offering and a marvelous achievement."—American AnthropologistTable of ContentsContentsPrologue: City of ContradictionsIntroduction: Making a Scene1. Automobility and the Gay Cityscape2. Elsewhere, between Palawan and the Global City3. The Specter of Kabaklaan4. Transnational Transit and the Circuits of Privilege5. White Noise and the Shock of Racial ShameCoda: Nowhere to GoAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Those who think Hollywood’s current predatory political scene and celebrity partner-swapping activities are new phenomena would be wise to dive into this tell-all tale of Henry Willson, an agent who became a major star maker to actors like Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, and Troy Donahue in the 1950s."—Publishers Weekly"A trove of enticing gossip and little-known facts . . . Hofler chronicles Willson’s life of privilege. He roams through the origins of his paradoxical right-wing attitudes, early intrigues to obtain sexual power, conspiracies hatched in glamorous fabled nightclubs, the Trocadero, the Macombo. He describes nasty sexual antics among powerful studio heads."—Los Angeles Times "The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson is a gritty, often coarse but well-researched biography of a tough Hollywood power broker famous for his ‘Adonis factory.’"—Salon.com "Hofler, a Variety editor and reporter, is well matched to this shark-tank of a life." —Washington Post
£15.19
University of Minnesota Press Tongzhi Living
Book SynopsisThe first study of its kind, Tongzhi Living offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in northeast China and shows that their attempts to practice both conformity and rebellion paradoxically undercut the goals they aspire to reach.Trade Review"Tongzhi Living is ethnographically rich, beautifully written, and poignantly descriptive of many social spaces in urban China. Through the lens of tongzhi struggles, desires, and community organizing, we witness people working against marginalization, silence, and invisibility."—Ralph Litzinger, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: A Walk in the Park 1. A Cultural History of Same-Sex Desire in China2. Popular Perceptions of Homosexuality in Postsocialist China3. The 1s and the 0s: Defining, Socializing, and Disciplining Gender Roles in the Tongzhi Community4. The Normal Postsocialist Subject: Class, Wealth, and Money Boys5. Organizing against HIV in China6. Embracing the Heterosexual Norm: The Double Lives of Tongzhi7. Safe Sex among Men: Condoms, Promiscuity, and HIVConclusion: Maybe Not Marriage: A Future Free of the ClosetAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
University of Minnesota Press Gaming at the Edge
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gaming at the Edge offers a fantastic intervention into not only gaming, but media studies more broadly. Adrienne Shaw astutely argues that our approach to understanding representation in games has been far too simplistic and, through her careful fieldwork, offers a rich framework for future studies. This is an important book for not only those interested in gaming, but anyone thinking about the complexities of representation and media."—T.L. Taylor, MIT"Gaming at the Edge is the book that video game studies needs right now. Adrienne Shaw explodes the notion that video game's gender and race problems will be solved by greater representation of these groups. "—Lisa Nakamura, author of Race After the Internet"Straight-forward, thoroughly argued and well-illustrated."—Digital Culture and Education"In Gaming at the Edge, Shaw offers an astute critique of come of the common wisdom about video games, their players, and representation."—Women’s Review of Books"This is an excellent, well-researched, and well-argued text that would be welcomed by any researcher or designer interested in more fully understanding the complexities of how identity relates to the world of games and play."—American Journal of Play"Scholars of gender, game studies, or media studies more generally would find Gaming at the Edge to be a critical and thought-provoking analysis of race, gender, and sexuality in video games."—Contemporary Sociology"Shaw's book is valuable for the study of representation across media and should be required reading on the politics, possibilities, and problems of media representation."—Communication, Culture & Critique"Shaw’s powerful words evoke utopian visions of inclusivity and intersubjectivity that are sure to serve as productive forces of inspiration in a number of diverse disciplines."—The Geek Anthropologist"Shaw’s Gaming at the Edge is both accessible and academic, and takes a much-needed critical, sociopolitical stance on the importance of diversity and inclusion in video games."—The Learned Fangirl"Shaw is extremely skilled at conveying complex and important concepts in an understandable and engrossing way."—International Journal of Communication"Offers an ethnographic study that explores the ways members of marginalized groups engage with video games, how the ability to identify with the characters represented in games shapes this engagement, and argues that ongoing conversations about diversity in games should be reframed to account for the intersectional nature of identity."—First Person ScholarTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction. Clichés versus Women: Moving beyond Sexy Sidekicks and Damsels in Distress1. From Custer’s Revenge and Mario to Fable and Fallout: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Digital Games2. Does Anyone Really Identify with Lara Croft? Unpacking Identification in Video Games3. He Could Be a Bunny Rabbit for All I Care! How We Connect with Characters and Avatars4. When and Why Representation Matters to Gamers: Realism versus EscapismConclusion: A Future Free of DickwolvesAcknowledgmentsNotesGameographyBibliographyIndex
£20.89
University of Minnesota Press Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent is a strongly original, frequently brilliant, cross-disciplinary study of the limitations of consent for measuring sexual freedom and sexual harm."—Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign "Joseph J. Fischel’s Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent offers a breathtakingly queer account of sex, perversion, innocence, and consent. His careful and complex reading of the social and legal meaning of the ‘sexual predator’ boldly challenges the common wisdom about the justifications for and consequences of regulating outlaw sexuality."—Katherine Franke, director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School"A very well-researched book . . . I applaud the author for the depth and breadth of his scholarship."—PsycCRITIQUES "A carefully written, intellectually challenging argument... A must read for queer and feminist scholars."—CHOICE "Through his proposal of autonomy, peremption, and an adolescence not isolated from social and historical contexts of inequality yet distinguishable from childhood, Fischel effectively moves the debate on what constitutes sexual harm well beyond the dichotomy of consent and predation." —PoLAR "The book is deeply compelling in its capacity to weave a legal archive and a popular culture archive, and in its compelling close-readings of both case law (and policy) and visual culture."—Political Theory"Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent should be considered required reading for anyone committed to thinking age as a central determinant of sexuality in consensual times."—GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay StudiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Sex and the Ends of Consent1. “Especially Heinous”: Politics, Predation, Sex Panics2. Transcendent Homosexuals, Dangerous Sex Offenders3. Numbers, Sex, Power: Age and Sexual Consent4. Growing Somewhere? Journeys of Gendered AdolescenceConclusion: Other Sex ScandalsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
University of Minnesota Press Dead Letters Sent Queer Literary Transmission
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this remarkable work, Kevin Ohi makes an extraordinarily compelling account of the queer ways that beauty, bodies, and desires circulate and continue to ‘live on’ as literary texts. Dead Letters Sent makes clear that Ohi has become one of the most accomplished, and one of the most ‘transmissive,’ literary critics of his generation."—Michael Moon, Emory University"While many queer theorists attest to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s influence on their work, Kevin Ohi’s book truly expands the reflective practice of queer pedagogy. This is a beautifully written book."—Nicholas de Villiers, author of Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol"Dead Letters Sent is itself a model of queer transmission, one that may well inspire and inform future work in literary studies. "—American Literary History "Ohi’s careful attention to his primary texts offers many rewards."—Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction Part I1. Queer Transmission and The Symposium: Insult, Gay Suicide, and the Staggered Temporalities of Consciousness2. Forgetting The TempestPart II3. Tradition in Fragments: Swinburne’s “Anactoria”4. Queer Atavism and Pater’s Aesthetic Sensibility: “Hippolytus Veiled” and “The Child in the House”Part III5. “That Strange Mimicry of Life by the Living”: Queer Reading in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” 6. Erotic Bafflement and the Lesson of Oscar Wilde: De ProfundisPart IV7. Lessons of the Master: Henry James’s Queer Pedagogy8. The Beast’s Storied EndPart V9. “My Spirit’s Posthumeity” and the Sleeper’s Outflung Hand: Queer Transmission in Absalom, Absalom!10. “Vanished but not gone, fixed and held in the annealing dust”: Initiations and Endings in Go Down, MosesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£68.00
University of Minnesota Press Dead Letters Sent Queer Literary Transmission
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this remarkable work, Kevin Ohi makes an extraordinarily compelling account of the queer ways that beauty, bodies, and desires circulate and continue to ‘live on’ as literary texts. Dead Letters Sent makes clear that Ohi has become one of the most accomplished, and one of the most ‘transmissive,’ literary critics of his generation."—Michael Moon, Emory University"While many queer theorists attest to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s influence on their work, Kevin Ohi’s book truly expands the reflective practice of queer pedagogy. This is a beautifully written book."—Nicholas de Villiers, author of Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol"Dead Letters Sent is itself a model of queer transmission, one that may well inspire and inform future work in literary studies. "—American Literary History "Ohi’s careful attention to his primary texts offers many rewards."—Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction Part I1. Queer Transmission and The Symposium: Insult, Gay Suicide, and the Staggered Temporalities of Consciousness2. Forgetting The TempestPart II3. Tradition in Fragments: Swinburne’s “Anactoria”4. Queer Atavism and Pater’s Aesthetic Sensibility: “Hippolytus Veiled” and “The Child in the House”Part III5. “That Strange Mimicry of Life by the Living”: Queer Reading in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” 6. Erotic Bafflement and the Lesson of Oscar Wilde: De ProfundisPart IV7. Lessons of the Master: Henry James’s Queer Pedagogy8. The Beast’s Storied EndPart V9. “My Spirit’s Posthumeity” and the Sleeper’s Outflung Hand: Queer Transmission in Absalom, Absalom!10. “Vanished but not gone, fixed and held in the annealing dust”: Initiations and Endings in Go Down, MosesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Death beyond Disavowal
Book SynopsisGrace Kyungwon Hong utilizes "difference" as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism. Death beyond Disavowal finds the memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to erase.Trade Review"This book is a significant intervention in scholarship on the politics of life and death, explaining why this dyad is so central to neoliberal forms of governance and building on women of color feminism’s analysis of the impossibility of separating out life and death and the danger of forgetting that life for some means death for others."—Shelley Streeby, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Neoliberal Disavowal and the Politics of the Impossible1. Fun with Death and Dismemberment: Irony, Farce, and Nationalist Memorialization2. On Being Wrong and Feeling Right: Cherríe Moraga and Audre Lorde3. Blues Futurity and Queer Improvisation4. Bringing Out the Dead: Black Feminism’s Prophetic VisionEpilogue: Life, Death, and Everything in BetweenAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press The Straight Line How the Fringe Science of
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive participant observation at conferences for exgays, reorientation therapists, mainstream psychologists, and survivors of exgay therapy, The Straight Line traces reorientation debates in the United States from the 1950s to the present.Trade Review"In The Straight Line, Tom Waidzunas offers a nuanced account of conflicts over sexual mutability in relation to civil rights and equal protection under the law. This book astutely analyzes the cultural saturations of scientific claims concerning ‘reorientation,’ tracing the ex-gay movement’s origins and its decline in the United States as well as its troubling ascent in post-colonial Uganda."—Jennifer Terry, University of California, Irvine"How do you measure sexual orientation? In this intriguing book, Tom Waidzunas examines encounters between opposing social movements and mainstream science over the efficacy of ‘reorientation,’ ‘reparative,’ or ‘ex-gay’ therapies, tracing how these battles have affected the way we think about sexuality. The Straight Line masterfully queers the meaning of evidence, credibility, and knowledge in the construction of sexual subjectivities."—Amin Ghaziani, author of There Goes the Gayborhood?"Finally we have a book that takes a deep, inside look at sexual reorientation therapies and their far-reaching cultural effects. In a provocative turn, The Straight Line not only interrogates the fringe science of sexual reorientation, but it shows us how these efforts to reorient gays and lesbians have shaped—and been shaped by—more liberal ideas about sexuality."—Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men"The Straight Line is a remarkably forward-thinking work of scholarship with the potential to disrupt normative academic discourses in the best possible ways. "—Lambda Literary"An excellent exploration of the way opposing movements influence the scientific process, and advances an intellectual opportunity structure model useful for understanding how dominant processes of knowledge production enable or constrain social movement mobilization and success. Scholars interested in social movements, sociology of science, or sociology of sexuality will find something of interest to them in this book."—MobilizationTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. The Shifting Straight Line: Ex-Gay Activists Confront Limited Intellectual Opportunities1. The Reorientation Regime: Therapeutic Techniques in an Anti-Homosexual Era, 1948–19722. The Evolution of Dr. Robert Spitzer: The Rise of Gay Affirmative Therapies, 1970–20033. Ex-Ex-Gays Match Testimony with Testimony, 2004–20074. Reorientation's Last Stand: Showdown at the American Psychological Association5. A National Movement against "Homos": How Reorientation Concepts Traveled to Uganda, 2009–2014Conclusion. Sexuality is a Matter of PerspectiveAcknowledgmentsMethodological AppendixNotesIndex
£66.30
University of Minnesota Press So Famous and So Gay The Fabulous Potency of
Book SynopsisThe first major English-language study of Japan's most important postwar artistsTrade Review"Balancing biographical accounts with highly salient readings of a number of their works, So Famous and So Gay offers smart, surprising insights into the ways in which Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein achieved cultural prominence in spite of the homophobia that kept other openly gay writers of the period out of mainstream literary culture. A daring, suggestive, and intensely interesting book."—Lisa Ruddick, University of Chicago"In So Famous and So Gay, Jeff Solomon amasses a treasure trove archive—literature, reviews, biographies, photographs, interviews—from which he examines the gayness, strangeness, and celebrity that combusted to create the queer precocity of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein. At once critically expansive and insightful, this book is also a good story. Like Stein and Capote, Solomon is an engaging stylist in his own right. Read to learn, read to enjoy (imagine that!)."—Ken Corbett, author of A Murder Over a Girl"Every bit as ‘fabulous’ as the subtitle promises, So Famous and So Gay focuses on two writers—Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein—whose strategies for politicizing questions of sexual identity included the manufacture of public personae as queerly flamboyant ‘geniuses’ and the exploitation of their author photos. Brilliantly exposing of the commodification of authorial identity, Solomon also offers a welcome corrective to strands of queer theory that neglect the specificities of same-sex desire."—Joseph Allen Boone, University of Southern California"Jeff Solomon’s So Famous and So Gay effectively reinvigorates the single author genre by stretching its scope and preconceived boundaries. Solomon’s magisterial command of twentieth century American literary culture and his provocative use of author photos make this particular two-author study an engaging work of scholarship."—James Penner, author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture"This book is about gayness overlooked and gay lives lovingly, materially recovered."—The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide"A very ambitious and innovative work in the field of queer studies."—Leonardo "Focusing on the nexus of sexuality, celebrity, and text, Solomon positions Capote and Stein as ‘comprehensive test cases’ for the interaction between homosexuality and US literature in the first half of the twentieth century." —American LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsPrologue: Beneath the MaskIntroduction: Stein and Capote in TheoryPart I1. Young, Effeminate, and Strange: The Debut of Truman Capote2. Capote, Forster, and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Mid-CenturyPart II3. Gertrude Stein, Opium Queen: Notes on a Mistaken Embrace4. Gertrude Stein in Life and TIME: A Respectable Commodity5. Three Lesbian Lives: A Map of Same-Sex PassionCoda: Janet Malcolm and Woody Allen Adrift in the PastAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£75.65
University of Alabama Press Rhetorical Secrets Mapping Gay Identity and Queer
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£19.76
LUP - University of Georgia Press Queering the South on Screen
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£117.40
LUP - University of Georgia Press Queering the South on Screen
Book SynopsisExamines the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the American South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
£39.17
LUP - University of Georgia Press From Jesus to JSetting Religious and Sexual
Book SynopsisDetails the experiences of Black people with diverse sexual identities from ages eighteen to thirty. The work examines how the intersection of racial, sexual, gender and religious identities influence self-expression and lifestyle choices in this understudied, often hidden population, by exploring how racial, sexual and religious dynamics play out.Trade ReviewFrom Jesus to J-Setting is a new take on religion, spirituality, and BIPOC LGBTQIA communities. I have not seen anything similar." - Carol S. Walther, author and coeditor of Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China"From Jesus to J-Setting offers an innovative exploration of how BMSM embrace religion and spirituality, wrestling with the question of what can understanding BMSM’s connection to spirituality do to help religious and other institutions better support this population." - Erica Chito Childs, author of Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture
£138.17
LUP - University of Georgia Press From Jesus to JSetting Religious and Sexual
Book SynopsisDetails the experiences of Black people with diverse sexual identities from ages eighteen to thirty. The work examines how the intersection of racial, sexual, gender and religious identities influence self-expression and lifestyle choices in this understudied, often hidden population, by exploring how racial, sexual and religious dynamics play out.Trade ReviewFrom Jesus to J-Setting is a new take on religion, spirituality, and BIPOC LGBTQIA communities. I have not seen anything similar." - Carol S. Walther, author and coeditor of Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China"From Jesus to J-Setting offers an innovative exploration of how BMSM embrace religion and spirituality, wrestling with the question of what can understanding BMSM’s connection to spirituality do to help religious and other institutions better support this population." - Erica Chito Childs, author of Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture
£27.92
MD - Duke University Press Barbies Queer Accessories
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Over the course of the 1980s, Barbie has become an artist’s model, a collector’s ‘fetish,’ and, as Erica Rand shows us, an object of collective and personal memory. Barbie’s Queer Accessories will help to open up important issues about queer readings in relationship to one of the most feminine coded objects of contemporary culture."—Lynn Spigel, author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
£22.49
Duke University Press Dangerous Intimacies
Book SynopsisRefuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, this book challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century.It is of interest to readers engaged in literary and queer theory.Trade Review“Engaging and original . . . Dangerous Intimacies makes a singular contribution to lesbian studies, feminist studies, and the history of the novel.”—Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Boston College“Moore refers to some of the most important current debates in queer theory—the nature of sexual identity, its history, its roots, and its relation to other factors in identity formations, such as race, class, ethnicity, gender, and national origin. She locates those arguments in persuasive, insightful readings that are refreshingly unhackneyed.”—Sally O’Driscoll, Fairfield University
£74.70
Duke University Press Dangerous Intimacies
Book SynopsisRefuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, this book challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century. It is of interest to readers engaged in literary and queer theory.Trade Review“Engaging and original . . . Dangerous Intimacies makes a singular contribution to lesbian studies, feminist studies, and the history of the novel.”—Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Boston College“Moore refers to some of the most important current debates in queer theory—the nature of sexual identity, its history, its roots, and its relation to other factors in identity formations, such as race, class, ethnicity, gender, and national origin. She locates those arguments in persuasive, insightful readings that are refreshingly unhackneyed.”—Sally O’Driscoll, Fairfield University
£22.79
MD - Duke University Press A Small Boy and Others
Book SynopsisExplores an array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.Trade Review“[In this] mesmerizing book . . . Moon can unleash power of his own in some of the most subtle and loamy literary and cultural criticism available anywhere. . . . The criticism he offers is unfailingly generous, both to the works and to us: he hopes his collection of queernesses may ‘contribute to the production of an expanded critical field.’ Let’s hope so.” - American Literature“Moon is an elegant reader, at his best when revealing layers of disruption and elusive motivation embedded within seemingly reticent texts.” - BookForum“[A] highly original approach. . . . Individual chapters are brilliant. . . . [T]his is highly recommended for collections supporting graduate work in queer theory and cultural studies.” - Library Journal“[Moon’s] aim is ambitious: to highlight points of continuity between formative influences of American queer culture during two critical decades—one following the conviction of Oscar Wilde (1895) and the other leading up to the period of the Stonewall riots (1969). Shuttling between these two periods, Moon examines how a variety of artists with queer sensibilities precociously identified themselves as outsiders highly sensitive to cultural disconnection and personal loss. . . . Moon juxtaposes figures not usually yoked in critical inquiry: Henry James and David Lynch, Vaslav Nijinksy and Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and John Schlesinger, Joseph Cornell and Gerard deNerval. In each instance, his intent is explicitly revisionist: he proposes a radical reassessment of the significance of the artists’ works. Scholars and students aware of these artists should find Moon’s argument provocative.” - Choice“Refreshing and original. . . .” - Eric Savoy, The Henry James Review“Moon’s analyses are shrewd and compassionate about their subjects, and give powerful evidence to the value of queer theory for criticism in general—the value of an open generosity of attention that is becoming increasingly rare within straightened and specialised academia.” - Ian F. A. Bell, American Studies“Michael Moon’s beautifully written book offers splendid and nuanced readings of American literature and culture that move the project of queer literary practice into a new order of complexity and subtlety. His radical contributions show that queer imitation involves a disorientation of mimesis, affirming both the sympathetic and divisive dimensions of identification. Moving, incisive, and bold, Moon’s writing approaches moments of rapture and loss and fails to tame them.”—Judith Butler“[A] highly original approach. . . . Individual chapters are brilliant. . . . [T]his is highly recommended for collections supporting graduate work in queer theory and cultural studies.” * Library Journal *“[In this] mesmerizing book . . . Moon can unleash power of his own in some of the most subtle and loamy literary and cultural criticism available anywhere. . . . The criticism he offers is unfailingly generous, both to the works and to us: he hopes his collection of queernesses may ‘contribute to the production of an expanded critical field.’ Let’s hope so.” * American Literature *“[Moon’s] aim is ambitious: to highlight points of continuity between formative influences of American queer culture during two critical decades—one following the conviction of Oscar Wilde (1895) and the other leading up to the period of the Stonewall riots (1969). Shuttling between these two periods, Moon examines how a variety of artists with queer sensibilities precociously identified themselves as outsiders highly sensitive to cultural disconnection and personal loss. . . . Moon juxtaposes figures not usually yoked in critical inquiry: Henry James and David Lynch, Vaslav Nijinksy and Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and John Schlesinger, Joseph Cornell and Gerard deNerval. In each instance, his intent is explicitly revisionist: he proposes a radical reassessment of the significance of the artists’ works. Scholars and students aware of these artists should find Moon’s argument provocative.” * Choice *“Moon is an elegant reader, at his best when revealing layers of disruption and elusive motivation embedded within seemingly reticent texts.” * BookForum *“Moon’s analyses are shrewd and compassionate about their subjects, and give powerful evidence to the value of queer theory for criticism in general—the value of an open generosity of attention that is becoming increasingly rare within straightened and specialised academia.” -- Ian F. A. Bell * American Studies *“Refreshing and original. . . .” -- Eric Savoy * The Henry James Review *
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Duke University Press Out Takes
Book SynopsisBrings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. This book includes essays that examine an array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly Creatures, and Bound.Trade Review"Dedicated to sniffing out the pansy quotient in ostensibly straight texts, queer theory sounds like fun ... It's certainly amusing to regard Hope and Crosby as illicit paramours in their 40s 'Road to ...' comedies, but I wish the creative misreader Steven Cohan didn't feel the need to unpack every last double entendre. The same goes for Alexander Doty, who ponders the latent homoerotics of Powell and Pressburger. " (and so it goes on)--Sight and Sound, February 2000"The whole is well designed, readable and illustrated with frame enlargements. The contributions retain the best aspects of queer theory's appealing revision of the past, revealing examination of the present and weather eye on the future. The volume is also welcome in that it is not purely located in the labyrinthine psychoanalytic underworld where much similar work tends to be found, and many of the contributions retain the sense of humour that is happily part of much of queer theory's style."--Mark Brownrigg, University of Stirling, SCOPETable of ContentsIntroduction: Out Takes / Ellis Hanson Cruise Control: Rethinking Masculinity in Classic Cinema Queering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby / Steven Cohan The Queer Aesthete, the Diva, and The Red Shoes / Alexander Doty Rear Window's Glasshole / Lee Edelman Visual Pleasure in 1959 / D. A. Miller Lesbian Looks: Desire, Identification, Fantasy Cassandra's Eyes / Bonnie Burns "That Ain't All She Ain't": Doris Day and Queer Performativity / Eric Savoy Lesbians Who Bite / Ellis Hanson Heavenly Creatures in Godzone / Michelle Elleray Queering the Reel: Sexual Politics and Independent Cinema White Neurotics, Black Primitives, and the Queer Matrix of Borderline / Jean Walton Scandalous! Kenneth Anger and the Prohibitions of Hollywood History / Matthew Tinkcom Queer Period: Derek Jarman's Renaissance / Jim Ellis Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History / Amy Villarejo Bibliography Index Contributors
£27.90
Duke University Press Queer in Russia
Book SynopsisExamines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. This book presents the study of how and why there was no Soviet gay community or even gay identity before perestroika and the degree to which this situation has-or has not-changed since. It reveals the vibrant manifestations of gay life found at the local level.Trade Review“An entirely original investigation of the gay and lesbian scene in Russia and a book of enormous value, Queer in Russia will serve as a beachhead in the field of Russian queer studies. In one volume one finds a concise history of sexual transgression in the Russian context as well as the rise of queer Russian identity.”—Luc Beaudoin, University of Denver“Laurie Essig’s book is significant both for Russianists and for queer theorists. Essig demonstrates that ‘queerness’ in Russia is not defined as a matter of identity politics, and, in so doing, she raises important theoretical questions about the nature(s) of queerness as it crosses cultural borders.”—Jehanne M Gheith, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part 1: The Other The Expert Gaze 1: The Law The Expert Gaze 2: The Cure Part 2: Self Identity Politics and the Politics of Identity Queer Subjects and Subjectivities Part 3: Intersections Clothes Make the Man: Gender Transgression and Public Queerness Patriots and Perverts: The Intersection of National and Sexual Identities Part 4: Sex Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Duke University Press Queering the Color Line
Book Synopsis Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white “color line,” the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality.At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public’s attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville arguesTrade Review“Queering the Color Line is a groundbreaking study that sets a new agenda for critical investigations of the intersecting histories of race and sexuality in the United States. Siobhan Somerville provides a model of interdisciplinary, politically engaged scholarship that is certain to become required reading in queer studies, race theory, and U.S. history as well as American literature.”—Lisa Duggan, New York University“By offering a new understanding of the emergence of race and sexuality as collaborative entities, Somerville has made an important contribution to the expanding scholarship in African American studies, American studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.”—Robyn Wiegman, author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender“This book pioneers new strategies for understanding the intersectionality of sexuality and race formation. Equally adept at textual analysis and historical contextualization, Somerville demonstrates how the early sexological division of people into homosexuals and heterosexuals was profoundly shaped by the discourse of scientific racism, and she elaborates her argument through a series of subtle reinterpretations of cinematic and literary texts that illuminate the profound—usually inexplicit—interdependence of racial and sexual discourse. A pathbreaking study.”—George Chauncey, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body 15 2. The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in Early Cinema 39 3. Inverting the Tragic Mulatta Tradition: Race and Homosexuality in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Fiction 77 4. Double Lives on the Color Line: “Perverse” Desire in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man 111 5. “Queer to Myself As I Am to You”: Jean Toomer, Racial Disidentification, and Queer Reading 131 Conclusion 166 Appendix 177 Notes 181 Bibliography 221 Index 249
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Duke University Press The Fruit Machine
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of reviews and articles originally published in gay community tabloids, academic journals, and anthologies. This work charts the emergence and maturation of author's sensibilities while lending an important historical perspective to the growth of film theory and criticism as well as queer moviemaking.Trade Review“This is an enthralling book about a topic at once life-affectingly important and extraordinarily complex: how gay people—or anyone else—are seen and see themselves and how the movies help shape that. Tom Waugh shows us in exemplary fashion that you can combine personal passion and political engagement with the highest standards of intellectual discipline, while taking us on a delicious trip through the vagaries of queer film images.”—Richard Dyer, University of Warwick“Tom Waugh was thinking queerly about the movies for decades before the New Queer Cinema was a market niche, but without his careful thinking and charming interventions, it’s hard to imagine the present cultural moment. Back when being gay was anything but fashionable, Waugh taught and fought, proselytized and organized, so that queer films and queer audiences would be taken seriously.”—B. Ruby Rich, author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film MovementTable of ContentsForeword / John Greyson Acknowledgments Introduction Films by Gays for Gays: A Very Natural Thing, Word Is Out, and The Naked Civil Servant (1977) Gays, Straights, Film, and the Left: A Dialogue (with Chuck Kleinhans) (1977) Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976–77) A Fag-Spotter’s Guide to Eisenstein (1977) Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1978) Medical Thrillers: Born a Man . . . Let Me Die a Woman (1978–79) Murnau: The Films Behind the Man (1979) An Unromantic Fiction: I’m Not from Here, by Harvey Marks (1979) The Gay Nineties, the Gay Seventies: Samperi’s Ernesto and von Praunheim’s Army Of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979) Montgomery Clift Biographies: Stars and Sex (1979–80) Gay Cinema, Slick vs. Real: Chant d’amour, Army of Lovers, We Were One Man (1980) Nighthawks, by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam (1980) A Saturday Night Surprise: Burin des Rozier’s Blue Jeans (1980)Caligula (1980) Taxis and Toilets: Ripploh and His Brothers (1981) Bright Lights in the Night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and Others (1981) Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes (1982) Two Strong Entries, One Dramatic Exit: Luc ou la part des choses, Another Way, and Querelle (1982) Hollywood’s Change of Heart? (Porky’s and The Road Warrior) (1982) Dreams, Cruises, and Cuddles in Tel Aviv: Amos Gutman’s Nagua (1983) Hauling an Old Corpse Out of Hitchcock’s Trunk: Rope (1983) Sex Beyond Neon: Third World Gay Films? (1985) Fassbinder Fiction: A New Biography (1986) Ashes and Diamonds in the Year of the Queer: Decline of the American Empire, Anne Trister, A Virus Knows No Morals, and Man of Ashes (1986) The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986–87) Laws of Desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera (1987) Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988) Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988) Whipping Up a Cinema (1989) Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992) In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946–1990 (1991) We’re Talking, Vulva, or, My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999) Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969–1984 (1995–97) Archeology and Censorship (1997) Bibliography: Selected Additional Works Index
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Duke University Press Virtuous Vice
Book SynopsisUsing queer theory and Marx's theory of value to explore issues of assimilation, representation, and equivalence, this book traces the concepts through selected 19th-century texts and contemporary gay and lesbian studies.Trade Review“The intensifying conflict between sex-radical queers and morally righteous gay citizens has lead to the ruination of contemporary sexual politics. Eric Clarke shows the way through the impasse with his viciously sharp analyses, which display the virtues of theoretical precision and historically informed scholarship. His book will transform how we think about sexuality and citizenship, about visibility, democracy, and the public sphere.”—Douglas Crimp, editor of AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism“This exceptionally intelligent study makes crucial contributions to ongoing conundrums about the connections between capitalism and gay identity. With remarkable sophistication, Clarke is able to connect the abstractions of Kant’s categorical imperative to the everyday pleasures of watching Ellen come out on TV. A powerful and sure-to-be influential book.”—Ann Cvetkovich, author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism"Virtuous Vice is an ambitious, subtle, and revelatory book, establishing Clarke as a major voice in queer theory and in social theory generally. It should be required reading for anyone interested in Habermas or Foucault, or in the complex issues of contemporary sexual politics."—Michael Warner, author of The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics and the Ethics of Queer LifeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere 1 1 Visibility at the Limits of Inclusion 29 2 Autonomy and Conformity 68 3 The Citizen's Sexual Shadow 101 4 Inseminating the Orient, Disseminating Identity 126 5 Shelley's Heart 148 Epilogue: Beyond Tolderance 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 215 Index 229
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Duke University Press Sapphic Slashers
Book SynopsisIn 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamoured to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" murder trial.Trade Review“A book to die for! Theoretically sophisticated, yet written with clarity and elegance, Sapphic Slashers opens whole new worlds of understanding about sexuality, gender norms, racial injustice, violence, and the complex ways they are connected. Full of passion and intelligence, it made me think in fresh new ways about issues of great importance. Duggan’s is an amazing intellect.”—John D’Emilio, coauthor of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America“Duggan seamlessly combines cultural theory with analyses of material conditions and demonstrates a breathtaking command of American cultural institutions—the mass press, the judicial systems, the medical literature. The book is not only smart about the interconnections between gender, sex, race, class, and nation, but is also lucid, making a good read.”—Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, author of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community“In this stunningly coherent and compelling account of the development of ‘American modernity,’ Duggan captures our interest with the sensational tale of lesbian love murder but then insists that we read this tale through turn-of-the-century debates over racial violence and against the backdrop of the medicalization of homosexuality. Sapphic Slashers has ‘classic’ written all over it.”—Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity“What Duggan does in this original and moving book is take a murder case from 1890’s Memphis and make of it a prism through which to illuminate American modernity. Her method depends less on an account of the murder or of the judicial procedure that followed it than on an analysis of the many narratives—of lesbian love and sex and madness—that the case occasioned. Juxtaposing these narratives to narratives of lynching, Duggan produces a tour-de-force of historical understanding.”—Henry Abelove, Wesleyan UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I Murder in Memphis 1. Girl Slays Girl 9 2. A Feast of Sensation 32 3. Habeas Corpus 61 4. Inquisition of Lunacy 87 Part II Making Meanings 5. Violent Passions 123 6. Doctors of Desire 156 7. A Thousand Stories 180 More Than Love: An Epilogue 193 Appendix A: Hypothetical Case 201 Appendix B: Letters 213 Notes 233 Bibliography 281 Index 299
£80.10
Duke University Press Sapphic Slashers
Book SynopsisIn 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamoured to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" murder trial.Trade Review“A book to die for! Theoretically sophisticated, yet written with clarity and elegance, Sapphic Slashers opens whole new worlds of understanding about sexuality, gender norms, racial injustice, violence, and the complex ways they are connected. Full of passion and intelligence, it made me think in fresh new ways about issues of great importance. Duggan’s is an amazing intellect.”—John D’Emilio, coauthor of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America“Duggan seamlessly combines cultural theory with analyses of material conditions and demonstrates a breathtaking command of American cultural institutions—the mass press, the judicial systems, the medical literature. The book is not only smart about the interconnections between gender, sex, race, class, and nation, but is also lucid, making a good read.”—Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, author of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community“In this stunningly coherent and compelling account of the development of ‘American modernity,’ Duggan captures our interest with the sensational tale of lesbian love murder but then insists that we read this tale through turn-of-the-century debates over racial violence and against the backdrop of the medicalization of homosexuality. Sapphic Slashers has ‘classic’ written all over it.”—Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity“What Duggan does in this original and moving book is take a murder case from 1890’s Memphis and make of it a prism through which to illuminate American modernity. Her method depends less on an account of the murder or of the judicial procedure that followed it than on an analysis of the many narratives—of lesbian love and sex and madness—that the case occasioned. Juxtaposing these narratives to narratives of lynching, Duggan produces a tour-de-force of historical understanding.”—Henry Abelove, Wesleyan UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I Murder in Memphis 1. Girl Slays Girl 9 2. A Feast of Sensation 32 3. Habeas Corpus 61 4. Inquisition of Lunacy 87 Part II Making Meanings 5. Violent Passions 123 6. Doctors of Desire 156 7. A Thousand Stories 180 More Than Love: An Epilogue 193 Appendix A: Hypothetical Case 201 Appendix B: Letters 213 Notes 233 Bibliography 281 Index 299
£25.19
Duke University Press Foundlings
Book SynopsisSuitable for those working on gay and lesbian studies, American literature and culture, and twentieth century history, this book analyses texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review“Foundlings is a first-rate, innovative, and unprecedented work that will take the literary world by storm. Christopher Nealon proves himself here to be the very best of a new generation of queer theorists.”—Judith Butler“Foundlings provides a new paradigm for thinking historically and theoretically about the longing for history within gay and lesbian texts. This is not just a stunning addition to queer historiography but also a challenge to the historicist turn in literary and cultural criticism.”—Bill Brown, author of The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of PlayTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Invert, the Foundling, and the “Member of the Tribe” 1. Hart Crane’s History 2. Feeling and Affiliation in Willa Cather 3. The Secret Public of Physique Culture 4. The Ambivalence of Lesbian Pulp Fiction Conclusion: Contexts and Afterlives Notes References Index
£22.49
MD - Duke University Press Touching Feeling
Book SynopsisBrings together the author's exploration of emotion and expression. This work features essays which offer "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion."Trade Review“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick writes with intense precision, and yet her work directs us toward the domain where meaning is music, unquantifiable, enigmatic, nonlinguistic. If the performative speech act, with all its relation to norms and laws, is central to the reception of her work in queer theory, then the performativity of knowledge beyond speech—aesthetic, bodily, affective—is its real topic.”—Lauren Berlant, author of The Queen of America Goes to Washington City"Fifteen years after publication, and nine years after the death of its author, Touching Feeling stands out. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s book defined subjects, keywords, and literary-critical ambitions that dominated discussion in English departments thereafter. Whether she set the future on this path or was superbly in tune with the contemporary mood is unclear." -- Mark Greif * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's gift is to electrify intellectual communities by reminding them that ’thought’ has a temperature, a texture, and an erotics. With a generosity that is at once self-abnegatingly ascetic, and gorgeously, exhibitionistically bravura, she opens door after door onto undiscovered fields of inquiry. There are too many high points in Touching Feeling for me to list them. Sedgwick's language, richly garlanded, syntactically showstopping, gives, everywhere, its characteristic, always surprising pleasure.”—Wayne Koestenbaum, author of Andy Warhol“[Sedgwick’s] ideas about the structures of desire between men in fiction have generated critical work for others, as her theories are put to work in rereadings of authors, texts, genres and periods. Any critic who so successfully challenges the fundamental terms of the discipline, and opens up new subjects for others to write and publish about, deserves fame and distinction. Moreover, Sedgwick's courage in speaking openly about her illness and about aspects of her self that most academic women would keep private, including being fat, is very moving.” -- Elaine Showalter * London Review of Books *“[Sedgwick’s] miraculous prose keeps ideas and attitudes in play that would collapse into contradiction or program in a lesser writer. . . . In the era of queer theory, Sedgwick’s miraculating writing keeps open a sense of sexuality as not binarized, neither only instrumental nor irreducibly conflictual, even when she is most passionately engaged in the work of advocacy. Today, writing through and after “queer” in a landscape of political impoverishment, Sedgwick’s thought and writing function, as she would say, as a kind of semaphore: There is More Than This. I think we need her writing more than ever.” -- Christopher Nealon * American Literature *“Fearless, challenging and occasionally exhilarating, Sedgwick remains one of the most courageous critics around.” * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Interlude, Pedagogic 27 1. Shame, Theatricality, and Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel 35 2. Around the Performative: Periperformative Vicinities in Nineteenth-Century Narrative 67 3. Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins (Written with Adam Frank) 93 4. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You 123 5. Pedagogy of Buddhism 153 Works Cited 183 Index 189
£70.55
Duke University Press Global Divas
Book SynopsisPresents an ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities. This book challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity.Trade Review“A lively ethnography that brilliantly reveals how Filipino gay immigrants manipulate symbols and meanings in order to survive and even flourish within the racial, ethnic, class, and gendered spaces of America and a globalizing world. Global Divas is a must-read for all those interested in the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status.”—Yen Le Espiritu, author of Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries“Global Divas points toward a truly cross-cultural anthropology of queerness in rendering the lives of Filipino gay men in New York. Martin F. Manalansan IV breaks through mainstream ignorance and stereotyping to achieve a rich portrait of the rituals, attitudes, language, and travails of his immigrant subjects and by extension, of queer immigrant experience in general.”—Esther Newton, author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public IdeasTable of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: Points of Departure 1 1 The Borders Between Bakla and Gay 21 2 Speaking in Transit: Queer Language and Translated Lives 45 3 "Out There": The Topography of Race and Desire in the Global City 62 4 The Biyuti and Drama of everyday Life 89 5 "To Play with the World": The Pageantry of Identities 126 6 Tita Aida: Intimate Geographies of Suffering 152 Conclusion: Locating the Diasporic Deviant/Diva 184 Notes 193 An Elusive Glossary 199 Works Cited 205 Index 219
£22.49
MD - Duke University Press Between You and Me
Book SynopsisA reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid-twentieth centuryTrade Review“Between You and Me is a brilliant read that flirtatiously winks and kisses its way through the New York art world of the postwar period, turning our favorite icons inside out and back in again. It’s all in the gossip. Larry Rivers painted a ‘visual gossip column’ and was described by Frank O’Hara as a ‘demented telephone,’ but it takes a smart flirt (the best kind) like Gavin Butt to see gossip’s methodological promise. Taking gossip into his own mouthy hands, Butt slurs the studios of Rivers, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol with their own reckless talk: kisses turn into smacks, and winks into home runs. (Between you and me, that’s how I like it.)”—Carol Mavor, author of Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden“Between You and Me is boldly original and beautifully written. Gavin Butt renders a rich (which is to say dishy) description of a queer past that might enable us to imagine a queer futurity. His book will stand as a lasting contribution to queer theory and visual cultural studies and, perhaps more importantly, serve as a political and methodological wake-up call to the discourse of art history.”—José Esteban Muñoz, coeditor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol“Queers do sing, if only in each other's ears. In his new Queer Studies book Between You and Me, art historian Gavin Butt . . . delves into the rampant gay social scene that accompanied the Pop Art era, in which so many pivotal figures were as gay as periwinkle pasta.” -- Roberto Friedman * Bay Area Reporter *“Between You and Me is a nimble book—balancing a self-consciousness about what it means to work on the most ephemeral of subjects, what it means to deploy gossip as a critical strategy, and how gossip figures in both the content and the form of art from this period. The result is a portrait of the evolution of new kinds of artistic personas, and a map for producing new methodologies for writing about them.” -- Jennifer Doyle * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Gossip: The Hardcore of Art History? 1 1. The American Artist in a World of Suspicion 23 2. Idol Gossip: Myths of Genius and the Making of Queer Worlds 51 3. The Gift of Gab: Camp Talk and the Art of Larry Rivers 74 4. Dishing on the Swish, or, the “Inning” of Andy Warhol 106 5. Bodies of Evidence: Queering Disclosure in the Art of Jasper Johns 136 Afterword: Flirting with an Ending 163 Notes 167 Bibliography 189 Index 201
£76.50
MD - Duke University Press Between You and Me
Book SynopsisA reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid-twentieth centuryTrade Review“Between You and Me is a brilliant read that flirtatiously winks and kisses its way through the New York art world of the postwar period, turning our favorite icons inside out and back in again. It’s all in the gossip. Larry Rivers painted a ‘visual gossip column’ and was described by Frank O’Hara as a ‘demented telephone,’ but it takes a smart flirt (the best kind) like Gavin Butt to see gossip’s methodological promise. Taking gossip into his own mouthy hands, Butt slurs the studios of Rivers, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol with their own reckless talk: kisses turn into smacks, and winks into home runs. (Between you and me, that’s how I like it.)”—Carol Mavor, author of Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden“Between You and Me is boldly original and beautifully written. Gavin Butt renders a rich (which is to say dishy) description of a queer past that might enable us to imagine a queer futurity. His book will stand as a lasting contribution to queer theory and visual cultural studies and, perhaps more importantly, serve as a political and methodological wake-up call to the discourse of art history.”—José Esteban Muñoz, coeditor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol“Queers do sing, if only in each other's ears. In his new Queer Studies book Between You and Me, art historian Gavin Butt . . . delves into the rampant gay social scene that accompanied the Pop Art era, in which so many pivotal figures were as gay as periwinkle pasta.” -- Roberto Friedman * Bay Area Reporter *“Between You and Me is a nimble book—balancing a self-consciousness about what it means to work on the most ephemeral of subjects, what it means to deploy gossip as a critical strategy, and how gossip figures in both the content and the form of art from this period. The result is a portrait of the evolution of new kinds of artistic personas, and a map for producing new methodologies for writing about them.” -- Jennifer Doyle * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Gossip: The Hardcore of Art History? 1 1. The American Artist in a World of Suspicion 23 2. Idol Gossip: Myths of Genius and the Making of Queer Worlds 51 3. The Gift of Gab: Camp Talk and the Art of Larry Rivers 74 4. Dishing on the Swish, or, the “Inning” of Andy Warhol 106 5. Bodies of Evidence: Queering Disclosure in the Art of Jasper Johns 136 Afterword: Flirting with an Ending 163 Notes 167 Bibliography 189 Index 201
£26.09
Duke University Press Black Queer Studies
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fields of black and queer studiesTrade Review“Black Queer Studies makes a dynamic contribution to the shifting landscape of queer studies. This volume will surely transform our understandings of both black studies and queer studies, and it will create new idioms for the analysis and theorization of race and sexuality. Black Queer Studies is necessary and long overdue.”—Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity“There are moments of epistemological excitement that recognize changes already ongoing, and then there are moments that at the same time both recognize and generate new ways of knowing. The creation of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology is such a moment. It changes our horizons of thought. I’m excited about its effect on my thinking and grateful to the contributors and editors for the boundary stretching.”—Wahneema Lubiano, editor of The House That Race Built“This fine collection of essays demonstrates the importance of black queer quests and questions.”—Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture“Cogent, dealing well with some of the race/gender topics addressed intelligently in studies such as William Hawkeswood's One of the Children (1996) and Roderick Ferguson's Aberrations in Black (2004). Recommended.” -- R B Shuman * Choice *"Insightful. . . . From the racial segregation that can occur in gay neighborhoods to current debates about the depiction of black gays and lesbians in film, many of the essays pursue important questions about sexual and racial identity. . . . Each of these essays feels more like a prayer, a kind you'd hope to hear in church: a calm and quiet attempt to speak to the complex fears and thoughts that trouble all our hearts." -- Quinn Eli * News & Observer *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Foreword: “Home” Is a Four-Letter Word / Sharon P. Holland ix Introduction: Queering Black Studies/ “Quaring” Queer Studies / E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson 1 I. DISCIPLINARY TENSIONS: BLACK STUDIES/QUEER STUDIES Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? / Cathy J. Cohen 21 Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity / Roderick A. Ferguson 52 Straight Black Studies: On African American Studies, James Baldwin, and Black Queer Studies / Dwight A. McBride 68 Outside in Black Studies: Reading from a Queer Place in the Diaspora / Rinaldo Walcott 90 The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Evidence, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge / Phillip Brian Harper 106 “Quare” Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother / E. Patrick Johnson 124 II. REPRESENTING THE “RACE”: BLACKNESS, QUEERS, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY Beyond the Closet as Raceless Paradigm / Marlon B. Ross 161 Privilege / Devon W. Carbado 190 “Joining the Lesbians”: Cinematic Regimes of Black Lesbian Visibility / Kara Keeling 213 Why Are Gay Ghettoes White? / Charles I. Nero 228 III. HOW TO TEACH THE UNSPEAKABLE: RACE, QUEER STUDIES, AND PEDAGOGY Embracing the Teachable Moment: The Black Gay Body in the Classroom as Embodied Text / Bryant Keith Alexander 249 Are We Family? Pedagogy and the Race for Queerness / Keith Clark 266 On Being a Witness: Passion, Pedagogy, and the Legacy of James Baldwin / Maurice O. Wallace 276 IV. BLACK QUEER FICTION: WHO IS “READING” US? But Some of Us Are Brave Lesbians: The Absence of Black Lesbian Fiction / Jewelle Gomez 289 James Baldwin‘s Giovanni‘s Room: Expatriation, “Racial Drag,” and Homosexual Panic / Mae G. Henderson 298 Robert O‘Hara‘s Insurrection: “Que(e)rying History” / Faedra Chatard Carpenter 323 Bibliography 349 Contributors 371 Index 375
£22.79
Duke University Press QueerEarlyModern
Book SynopsisArgues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. This title presents New Historicist accounts of sexual identity that claim to respect historical proprieties.Trade Review“Carla Freccero’s beautifully written book offers a strong, persuasive, and new way of reading queer early modern texts. Refusing the historicist view that would draw fierce lines between premodern and modern, Freccero asks her reader to consider premodern texts as intervening in the logic of their times and persisting within modernity in spectral form. Her intense engagement with queer early modern scholarship is enriched and disoriented by her insistence that contemporary practices of ‘queering’ are haunted by their unfinished and unfinishable past. Her singular and deft way of moving between contemporary culture and politics and the animated remnants of premodern texts offers a brilliant model for contemporary scholarship and a truly innovative turn in queer studies.”—Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California, Berkeley“Had he lived in the sixteenth century, André Breton would have proclaimed: ‘Art will be queer or it will not be.’ Such is the enduring truth we obtain from Carla Freccero’s powerful, inventive, indeed genial readings of the early modern canon. A brilliant work showing us what we can do with what we call the past.”—Tom Conley, author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France“Queer/Early/Modern is an important and exciting contribution to the literature on representations of sexuality and subjectivity in early modern literature and culture. The book will be of interest to anyone who has been engaged in the project of ‘queering’ the Renaissance and beyond not simply as a way of finding precursors for modern lifestyles and identities but as a political gesture meant to resist essentialist critiques that attempt to simplify the complexity of (queer) identities by anchoring them in rigid notions of history. Freccero is not afraid to make bold claims, and she has the historical knowledge and theoretical prowess to support them convincingly.” -- David LaGuardia * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“If the academy were a spa, then Queer/Early/Modern would be its hot-rock massage. At once painful and invigorating, this brilliant book destroys heteronormative historiography with a force belied only by its exquisitely beautiful prose.” -- Madhavi Menon * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments iv 1. Prolepses: Queer/Early/Modern 1 Part One. Past, Present 2. Always Already Queer (French) Theory 13 3. Undoing the Histories of Homosexuality 31 4. Queer Nation: Early/Modern France 51 Part Two. Futures 5. Queer Spectrality 69 Notes 105 Bibliography 149 Index 173
£74.70
Duke University Press Beautiful Bottom Beautiful Shame
Book SynopsisWhen and why have certain forms of shame been embraced by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects of sorrow and ways of creative historical knowing? How and why is it central to camp? This title deals with these questiions.Trade Review“Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame is an exciting, pointed, splendidly written, culturally important book.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, PerformativityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction Embracing Shame: “Black” and “Queer” in Debasement 1 1. Cloth Wounds, or When Queers Are Martyred to Clothes: Debasements of a Fabricated Skin 39 2. Bottom Values: Anal Economics in the History of Black Neighborhoods 67 3. When Are Dirty Details and Scenes Compelling? Tucked in the Cuts of Interracial Anal Rape 101 4. Erotic Corpse: Homosexual Miscegenation and the Decomposition of Attraction 149 5. Prophylactics and Brains: Slavery in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS 177 Conclusion: Dark Camp: Behind and Ahead 205 Notes 223 Bibliography 257 Index 265
£25.19
Duke University Press Finding the Movement
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the role public spaces—parks, clubs, book stores—played in shaping the feminist movement in three Midwestern cities during the 1960s and 1970s.Trade Review“In places like softball fields, church basements, and dance floors, Anne Enke locates a cast of compelling characters who don’t usually make it into history books. The result is a startlingly original history of second-wave feminism. Enke forces us to think freshly about the 1960s, political mobilization, and the ways that people change the world around them.”—John D’Emilio, coauthor of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America“Possibly the best book to date on the ‘second wave’ women’s movement and certainly the most original . . . one of the best handful of studies of any social movement. I look forward to using it in my courses.”—Linda Gordon, author of The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction“Enke gives us an account of feminist political values as they are struggled over in action, day by day. Taken cumulatively, the record she provides in this book of the flexibility, genius, and solid achievements of the modern women’s liberation movement—in all its varied forms—is simply astonishing.” -- Ann Snitow * Women's Review of Books *“Enke’s book confidently moves beyond any feminist need to legitimize itself and instead explores the explosion of sites of feminist activism . . . that challenged social practices and laws restricting women’s use of public space, thereby producing the possibility for greater feminist organizing.” -- Julia Balén, * Signs *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Locating Feminist Activism 1 Part 1: Community Organizing and Commercial Space 1. “Someone or Something Made That a Women’s Bar”: Claiming the Nighttime Marketplace 25 2. “Don’t Steal It, Read It Here”: Building Community in the Marketplace 62 Part 2: Public Assertion and Civic Space 3. “Kind of Like Mecca”: Playgrounds, Players, and Women’s Movement 105 4. Out in Left Field: Feminist Movement and Civic Athletic Space 145 Part 3: Politicizing Place and Feminist Institutions 5. Finding the Limit of Women’s Autonomy: Shelters, Health Clinics, and the Practice of Property 177 6. If I Can’t Dance Shirtless, It’s Not a Revolution: Coffeehouse, Clubs, and the Construction of “All Women” 217 Conclusion: Recognizing the Subject of Feminist Activism 252 Notes 269 Bibliography 335 Index 357
£27.90
Duke University Press Next of Kin
Book SynopsisA feminist analysis of the Chicano family that sees it as a site of political struggle with patriarchal masculinity, nationalism, and homophobia.Trade Review“Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Next of Kin and would recommend it highly. I plan to include it the next time I teach a gender and migration course. I think it would work well for upper-division undergraduate as well as graduate students.” - Leah Schmalzbauer, International Journal of Sociology of the Family“[T]he publication of Rodríguez’s book is exceptionally timely given widespread prejudices many Chicanos–Chicanas are still facing. The book is engagingly written and will certainly be of great value for specialists in the Americas, queer and feminist theory, cultural studies, popular culture, kinship, and migration.” - Julia Pauli, American Anthropologist“The centrality of the family to Chicano culture is indisputable. One of Next of Kin’s merits lies in its push to expand the notion of exactly who makes up this family. The cultural studies approach, which allows for the analysis of various modes of cultural expression, explains the general absence of canonical literary texts, many of which prominently feature both biological and fictive representations of family. Rodríguez counters this by critically engaging a rich variety of cultural practices, all of great relevance to the reconfiguration of la familia Chicana.” - José Pablo Villalobos, Camino Real“By studying the works of writers, filmmakers, painters, and musicians, Rodríguez assembles a rich cultural study and illustrates how ‘alternative’ family configurations (as opposed to the husband-dominated model) have existed in Chicano culture longer than previously thought. . . .” - Charlie Vázquez“Next of Kin offers one of the most cogent articulations of Chicana/o cultural critique to date. Through elegant readings of a dynamic archive of Chicano literary and popular culture, Richard T. Rodríguez scrutinizes the cultural authority of the biological Chicana/o family, critiquing its exclusionary impulses and championing transformative reconfigurations of la familia. Along the way, he provides a nuanced consideration of Chicana/o political and cultural history.”—José Esteban Muñoz, author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics“A gorgeous tapestry of cultural forms and interpretive brilliance, Next of Kin reopens the debate over our conflicted understandings of la familia in light of the challenges produced by feminism and queer studies. A must read for all those interested in Chicana and Chicano politics, fiction, film, photography, performance, and painting. Richard T. Rodríguez has given us a map with which to negotiate the twenty-first century uses of the family.”—George Mariscal, author of Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975“[T]he publication of Rodríguez’s book is exceptionally timely given widespread prejudices many Chicanos–Chicanas are still facing. The book is engagingly written and will certainly be of great value for specialists in the Americas, queer and feminist theory, cultural studies, popular culture, kinship, and migration.” -- Julia Pauli * American Anthropologist *“By studying the works of writers, filmmakers, painters, and musicians, Rodríguez assembles a rich cultural study and illustrates how ‘alternative’ family configurations (as opposed to the husband-dominated model) have existed in Chicano culture longer than previously thought. . . .” -- Charlie Vázquez“Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Next of Kin and would recommend it highly. I plan to include it the next time I teach a gender and migration course. I think it would work well for upper-division undergraduate as well as graduate students.” -- Leah Schmalzbauer * International Journal of Sociology of the Family *“The centrality of the family to Chicano culture is indisputable. One of Next of Kin’s merits lies in its push to expand the notion of exactly who makes up this family. The cultural studies approach, which allows for the analysis of various modes of cultural expression, explains the general absence of canonical literary texts, many of which prominently feature both biological and fictive representations of family. Rodríguez counters this by critically engaging a rich variety of cultural practices, all of great relevance to the reconfiguration of la familia Chicana.” -- José Pablo Villalobos * Camino Real *Table of ContentsAbout the Series v Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Staking Family Claims 1 Reappraising the Archive 19 Shooting the Patriarch 55 The Verse of the Godfather 95 Carnal Knowledge 135 Afterword: Making Queer Familia 167 Notes 177 Bibliography 211 Discography 235 Filmography 237 Index 239
£25.19
Duke University Press The Promise of Happiness
Book SynopsisThis provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression.Trade Review“Ahmed’s analyses are spot-on and provocative. . . . Ahmed’s analysis of this and other topics is unpredictable and engaging.” - Heather Seggel, The Gay & Lesbian Review“Ahmed's language is a joy, and her work on each case study is filled with insight and rigor as she doggedly traces the social networks of dominance concealed and congealed around happiness. . . . The Promise of Happiness is an important intervention in affect studies that crucially approaches one of the major assumptions guiding social life: the assumption that we need to be happy.” - Sean Grattan, Social Text“. . . [F]ascinating and important, both in showing us how to read some keytexts differently and in showing how to think more carefully about happinessand its politics. . . . [T]here is a perverse happiness to be taken from readingsuch an interesting book about the insufficiency of happiness.” - Richard Ashcroft, Textual Practice“The Promise of Happiness bridges philosophy and cultural studies, phenomenology and feminist thought—providing a fresh and incisive approach to some of the most urgent contemporary feminist issues. Ahmed navigates this bridge with a voice both clear and warm to convey ideas that are as complex as they are intimate and accessible. Her treatment of affect as a phenomenological project provides feminist theorists a way out of mind-body divides without reverting to essentialisms, enabling Ahmed to attend to intersectional and global power relations with acuity and originality.” - Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Signs“The Promise of Happiness is richly valuable not only for its discussion of utilitarianism but also for its broader deconstruction of the workings of happiness in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and social science. Whereas other feminist theorists also occasionally cast a critical eye toward happiness, or raise consciousness of female unhappiness, Ahmed has produced a volume that is unparalleled in its sustained and extensive expose´ of the entanglements between discourses of happiness and oppression.” - Andrea Veltman, Hypatia“Ahmed enhances feminism’s critical toolbox by guiding us to regard affect as a cipher for society as we track how it produces and is produced by politics. ... Ahmed draws on feminism to potentially enhance the quality of life for her readers, who are offered mindful practices of relinquishing attachment to various ideals in a text that is neither Pollyannaish nor depressing.” - Naomi Greyser, Feminist Studies“At a time when happiness studies are all the rage and feminism is accused of destroying women’s happiness, Sara Ahmed offers a bold critique of the consensus that happiness is an unconditional good. Her new book asks searching questions about the nature of the good life, making its case in a wonderfully pellucid prose. What a paradox that a defense of the kill-joy should be such a pleasure to read! This timely, original, and intellectually expansive book is sure to trigger a great deal of debate.”—Rita Felski, University of Virginia“What could be more naturalized and less subject to ideological critique than happiness? How are we to get critical perspective on it? Through her readings of texts and films, Sara Ahmed shows how this might work. By revealing the complexity and ambivalence of happiness, she intervenes in several fields—including queer and feminist theory, affect studies, and critical race theory—in a genuinely new and exciting way.”—Heather K. Love, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History “The Promise of Happiness is an extraordinary text that should become a mainstay of affect studies and that serves as a strikingly powerful model of astute cultural critique. Ahmed offers an insightful study of our preoccupation with and desire for happiness.” -- Jenna Supp-Montgomerie * Women's Studies Quarterly *“Expand[s] the political horizons of feeling and cultural politics with exciting complexity . . . brilliant.” -- Sarah Cefai * Cultural Studies Review *“By unpacking the attribution of happiness to specific choices and lives, Ahmed encourages us to consider how ‘the promise of happiness’ serves as a moral imperative. A stimulating and—dare I say—pleasurable read, the book may not have a happy ending, but it does propose what might happen instead.” -- Kestryl Cael Lowrey * Lambda Literary Review *“Fascinating and important, both in showing us how to read some key texts differently and in showing how to think more carefully about happiness and its politics. . . . [T]here is a perverse happiness to be taken from reading such an interesting book about the insufficiency of happiness.” -- Richard Ashcroft * Textual Practice *“The Promise of Happiness is richly valuable not only for its discussion of utilitarianism but also for its broader deconstruction of the workings of happiness in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and social science. Whereas other feminist theorists also occasionally cast a critical eye toward happiness, or raise consciousness of female unhappiness, Ahmed has produced a volume that is unparalleled in its sustained and extensive expose´ of the entanglements between discourses of happiness and oppression.” -- Andrea Veltman * Hypatia *“The Promise of Happiness bridges philosophy and cultural studies, phenomenology and feminist thought—providing a fresh and incisive approach to some of the most urgent contemporary feminist issues. Ahmed navigates this bridge with a voice both clear and warm to convey ideas that are as complex as they are intimate and accessible. Her treatment of affect as a phenomenological project provides feminist theorists a way out of mind-body divides without reverting to essentialisms, enabling Ahmed to attend to intersectional and global power relations with acuity and originality.” -- Aimee Carrillo Rowe * Signs *“Ahmed enhances feminism’s critical toolbox by guiding us to regard affect as a cipher for society as we track how it produces and is produced by politics. ... Ahmed draws on feminism to potentially enhance the quality of life for her readers, who are offered mindful practices of relinquishing attachment to various ideals in a text that is neither Pollyannaish nor depressing.” -- Naomi Greyser * Feminist Studies *“Ahmed's language is a joy, and her work on each case study is filled with insight and rigor as she doggedly traces the social networks of dominance concealed and congealed around happiness. . . . The Promise of Happiness is an important intervention in affect studies that crucially approaches one of the major assumptions guiding social life: the assumption that we need to be happy.” -- Sean Grattan * Social Text *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Happiness, Why Now? 1 1. Happy Objects 21 2. Feminist Killjoys 50 3. Unhappy Queers 88 4. Melancholic Migrants 121 5. Happy Futures 160 Conclusion: Happiness, Ethics, Possibility 199 Notes 225 References 283 Index 301
£80.10
Duke University Press The Feeling of Kinship
Book SynopsisProvides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship.Trade Review“The Feeling of Kinship is a timely examination of the persistence of racial and national differentiation within the privileged investments of ‘queer liberalism’ in its particular focus on the rights to affective union in domesticity, privacy, and family. Here, as elsewhere, David L. Eng demonstrates his gifts of critical precision and elegant presentation.”—Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego“Spanning psychoanalysis, law, and aesthetics, and reading richly and with passion, David L. Eng's The Feeling of Kinship looks at transnational adoption as an exemplary scene of contemporary intimacy in the United States. This is a fearless book that knows and feels what it means to have to defend oneself from the ‘liberal’ place in which one lives; what it means racially, sexually, and legally to have to be defensive in a nation that identifies itself with freedom.”—Lauren Berlant, author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American CultureTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1 1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 23 2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and Happy Together 58 3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in First Person Plural 93 4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation (with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138 5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166 Notes 199 Bibliography 225 Index 239
£76.50
Duke University Press Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Mexico and Brazil.Trade Review“The detailed analysis of the different efforts in each country and the careful cross-national comparison makes this work an essential source for any scholar working on Brazil, Mexico, democratization in Latin America, and the emergence of gender and sexual movements demanding equal rights and an end to discrimination.” - James N. Green, The Americas“Rafael de la Dehesa has written an empirically rich and analytically nuanced book that explores the rise and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist engagements with the state in Brazil and Mexico. . . . de la Dehesa makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of LGBT movements and of Brazilian and Mexican politics. . . . [H]is comparative analysis deepens our understanding of how globalization, in particular the transnational project of liberal modernity, powerfully affects local activism, but in contingent and nonhomogenizing ways.” - Deborah Gould, Perspectives on Politics“[A]nother wonderful piece of scholarship based on a decade of field research, including nearly 270 interviews with a wide range of respondents. . . . [A] beautifully written, eloquently argued, and entirely original work. De la Dehesa has written the first English-language monograph focused on the interaction of Latin American LGBT communities with party systems and the state. . . . This book is sure to find a wide audience, as it explores key issues in Latin American and sexuality studies, as well as in sociology and politics.” - Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Signs“Rafael de la Dehesa does a wonderful job comparing the activism of the LGBT movements in both countries, something that is important mainly because of the lack of this kind of rigorous studies in Latin America. Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil, a model of comparative analysis, reveals a significant history of organization and political presence of sexual minorities in Latin America that has remained mostly ignored.” - R. Hernandez Rodriguez, The Latin Americanist“Rafael de la Dehesa’s work stands out among recent studies of social movement activism around sexual identities and scholarly publications on democratisation in Latin America. It breathes fresh air into the debate on the nature and meaning of the democratisation processes in the region and provides key insights on the role that civil society groups have played in domestic and transnational contexts. . . . Without any doubt this will soon become a seminal piece for anyone interested in interdisciplinary and comparative analyses, North and South.” - Antonio Torres-Ruiz, Journal of Latin American Studies“Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is an exceptional study with the potential to become a major reference in this field of research. It will help to define the analysis of LGBT political mobilization in the global South for some time to come.”—Richard Parker, author of Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil“Rafael de la Dehesa uses the tools and methods of comparative politics to move queer activism from the margins to the center of the debate. He delves deeply into the historical development and current dynamics of queer political interactions with the state in two countries whose institutional and cultural contexts he knows thoroughly. And he makes major contributions to current thinking about neoliberalism, governmentality, the public sphere, and the limits and potential of ‘sexual citizenship.’”—Rosalind Petchesky, co-author of Sexuality, Health, and Human Rights“Very little has been written on the emergence of gay and lesbian rights as an issue in the public sphere in Latin America, or on the social forces that have led to related legislative gains. Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil fills a gap and should be welcomed by specialists in Latin American studies, gay and lesbian studies, social movements, and civil rights.”—Barry D. Adam, co-editor of The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement“Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is an excellent read. To my knowledge, it provides the first systematic comparison of national LGBT movements in Latin America. . . . [I]t has the potential to reorient existing academic understandings of the manner in which LGBT social movements are becoming globalized. In short, this is a well-researched and extremely thoughtful book that will make an important contribution to the study of LGBT movements in particular and social movements more generally. It is also a welcome addition to analyses of liberal democracies throughout Latin America.” -- Hector Carrillo * American Journal of Sociology *“[T]he author’s history of homosexuality in Brazil and Mexico is lively…. Top-down changes in policy do not necessarily lead to cultural shifts. But in Latin America, as these authors show, today the grassroots are rising to the challenge.” -- Catesby Holmes * NACLA Report on the Americas *“[A]nother wonderful piece of scholarship based on a decade of field research, including nearly 270 interviews with a wide range of respondents. . . . [A] beautifully written, eloquently argued, and entirely original work. De la Dehesa has written the first English-language monograph focused on the interaction of Latin American LGBT communities with party systems and the state. . . . This book is sure to find a wide audience, as it explores key issues in Latin American and sexuality studies, as well as in sociology and politics.” -- Elisabeth Jay Friedman * Signs *“Rafael de la Dehesa has written an empirically rich and analytically nuanced book that explores the rise and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist engagements with the state in Brazil and Mexico. . . . de la Dehesa makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of LGBT movements and of Brazilian and Mexican politics. . . . [H]is comparative analysis deepens our understanding of how globalization, in particular the transnational project of liberal modernity, powerfully affects local activism, but in contingent and nonhomogenizing ways.” -- Deborah Gould * Perspectives on Politics *“Rafael de la Dehesa’s work stands out among recent studies of social movement activism around sexual identities and scholarly publications on democratisation in Latin America. It breathes fresh air into the debate on the nature and meaning of the democratisation processes in the region and provides key insights on the role that civil society groups have played in domestic and transnational contexts. . . . Without any doubt this will soon become a seminal piece for anyone interested in interdisciplinary and comparative analyses, North and South.” -- Antonio Torres-Ruiz * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction: Hybrid Modernities, Modern Sexualities 1 Part I. Frames 1. On Sexual Subjects and Public Spheres 27 Part II. Doorways 2. Occupying the Partisan Field: First Door on the Left 61 3. The Limits of Liberalization: Entering the Electoral Field 87 Part III. Pathways 4. Advancing Homosexual Citizenship: Brazil's Early Turn to Legislatures 115 5. Life at the Margins: Coalition Building and Sexual Diversity in the Mexican Legislature 146 6. Brazil without Homophobia, or, A Technocratic Alternative to Political Parties 178 Conclusion: The Hope and Fear of Institutions 204 Acronyms 219 Notes 221 Bibliography 247 Index 287
£25.19
Duke University Press The Feeling of Kinship
Book SynopsisProvides a theoretical analysis of how Asian migration and diaspora support the consolidation of gay and lesbian family and intimacy in our colorblind age, and develops a poststructuralist account of kinship.Trade Review“The Feeling of Kinship is a timely examination of the persistence of racial and national differentiation within the privileged investments of ‘queer liberalism’ in its particular focus on the rights to affective union in domesticity, privacy, and family. Here, as elsewhere, David L. Eng demonstrates his gifts of critical precision and elegant presentation.”—Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego“Spanning psychoanalysis, law, and aesthetics, and reading richly and with passion, David L. Eng's The Feeling of Kinship looks at transnational adoption as an exemplary scene of contemporary intimacy in the United States. This is a fearless book that knows and feels what it means to have to defend oneself from the ‘liberal’ place in which one lives; what it means racially, sexually, and legally to have to be defensive in a nation that identifies itself with freedom.”—Lauren Berlant, author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American CultureTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1 1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 23 2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and Happy Together 58 3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in First Person Plural 93 4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation (with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138 5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166 Notes 199 Bibliography 225 Index 239
£20.89
Duke University Press Shakesqueer
Book SynopsisShakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare.Trade Review“The adventurous essays in Shakesqueer demonstrate that queer theory does indeed need Shakespeare, if only to defy rumors of its own demise: the essays show what is vital about a queer studies that might have been thought by this point too domesticated or reified or ‘fixed’ to be intellectually vibrant.”—Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern“What happens when queer theory gets into bed with Shakespeare? A play in forty-eight acts, this spirited group production never ceases to entertain and surprise with its queer cast of characters: virgins, eunuchs, and lechers; queens, kings, and pageboys; tyrants, assassins, and killjoys; lions, tigers, and bears—oh my! Full of toil and trouble, wit and wisdom, Shakesqueer succeeds where few other edited collections do: it puts the play back in playwright, and the fun back in theory.”—Diana Fuss, Princeton University“In the end, this book is a big, glorious mess, full of playful juxtapositions and frightening possibilities. It is thrilling. Theatre scholars, queer theorists, actors, directors, and dramaturges will all find something useful and interesting.” -- Michael Cramer * Sixteenth Century Journal *“When studying endless Shakespeare plays on English Literature courses, we always had a hunch there were some exceptionally queer goings on beyond some same sex sonnets and this collection of essays proves us right. Earl on earl analysis sits beside complex queer theories on the bard.” * Gay Times *“Few works of literary criticism deserve the descriptor ‘monumental,’ but this one does. . . . The book is both readable and witty. It is also important, for it drives the final nail into the coffin of 20th-century Shakespearean studies. . . . No hierarchies survive this book. Every play and poem receives a fresh new reading. . . . Essential. All readers.” -- M. J. Emery * Choice *“If you're looking for clues to Romeo and Mercutio's secret romance in the new academic volume Shakesqueer : A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by Madhavi Menon (Duke), you're barking up the wrong yew tree. American University professor Menon and her queer-theorist contributors find queerness in Shakespeare in that term's most all-encompassing meaning of oddball, unusual, or non-normative. But when you come to think of it, fairy queen Titania falling in love with an ass named Bottom is pretty queer, in all senses of the word.” -- Roberto Friedman * Bay Area Reporter *“It is rare to see a volume that does so much, and does it with such consistent wit, thoughtfulness, and creativity. . . . In putting together this volume, Menon has done scholars from all fields and periods an immense service. Shakesqueer gives us a very queer new reading ‘’companion’’ — friend, helpmeet, comrade-in-arms — that makes us exquisitely aware of the need for the perverse and disruptive critical practice its essays so pleasurably model.” -- Melissa E. Sanchez * Renaissance Quarterly *“There’s something for every queer scholar and Bard-lover in the anthology; from bears in Henry VIII to eunuchs in Antony and Cleopatra, from the death drive in Hamlet to precariously heterosexual marriages in All’s Well that Ends Well, the contributing authors chart Shakespeare’s varied engagements with queerness, putting pressure on assumptions that Shakespeare has nothing to offer to contemporary queer theory. . . . The assorted essays assert that Shakespeare has as much to offer queer theory as queer theory can contribute to understanding and deconstructing the Bard’s texts. This book belongs on every bookish queer’s shelf, right where the leather-bound Complete Works of William Shakespeare butts up against Butler and Foucault.” -- Kestryl Cael Lowrey * Lambda Literary Review *“This fascinating collection of essays explores the queer elements within all of Shakespeare’s works. With contributions from scholars of both queer studies and Shakespeare, the volume represents a joining of the two fields rarely attempted before.” -- Charles Green * Gay & Lesbian Review *“[Shakesqueer] manages to put the fun back into academic research. Shakesqueer is a highly entertaining collection of essays, which all focus on the strange, the unusual, that is, the queer element in the Shakespearean oeuvre.” -- Veronika Schandl * European Journal of English Studies *"For 'insider experts'—those who are Shakespeareans, queer theorists, or both (always, already, at once)—Shakesqueer provides a garden of delights between its covers. . . . Shakesqueer extends, enriches, and strengthens the vocabulary of Shakespeare criticism in concert with queer theory." -- Stephen F. Evans * Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Queer Shakes / Madhavi Menon 1 All is True (Henry VIII)The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII / Steven Bruhm 28 All's Well That Ends WellIs Marriage Always Already Heterosexual? / Julie Crawford 39 Antony and CleopatraAught an Eunuch Has / Ellis Hanson 48 As You Like ItFortune's Turn / Valerie Rohy 55 Cardenio"Absonant Desire": The Question of Cardenio / Philip Lorenz 62 The Comedy of ErrorsIn Praise of Error / Lynne Huffer 72 Coriolanus"Tell Me Not Wherein I Seem Unnatural": Queer Meditations on Coriolanus in the Time of War / Jason Edwards 80 Cymbelinedesire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline's Marriage Time / Amanda Berry 89 HamletHamlet's Wounded Name / Lee Edelman 97 Henry IV, Part 1When Harry Met Harry / Matt Bell 106 Henry IV, Part 2 The Deep Structure of Sexuality: War and Masochism in Henry IV, Part 2 / Daniel Juan Gil 114 King Henry VScrambling Harry and Sampling Hal / Drew Daniel 121 Henry VI, Part 1"Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Soldier" / Mario Digangi 130 Henry VI, Part 2The Gayest Play Ever / Stephen Guy-Bray 139 Henry VI, Part 3Stay / Cary Howie 146 Julius CaeserThus, Always: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln / Bethany Schneider 152 King JohnQueer Futility: Or, The Life and Death of King John / Kathryn Schwarz 163 King LearLear's Queer Cosmos / Laurie Shannon 171 A Lover's ComplaintLearning How to Love (Again) / Ashley T. Shelden 179 Love's Labour's LostThe L Words / Madhavi Menon 187 Love's Labour's WonDoctorin' the Bard: A Contemporary Appropriation of Love's Labour's Won / Hector Kollias 194 MacbethMilk / Heather Love 201 Measure for MeasureSame-Saint Desire / Paul Morrison 209 The Merchant of VeniceThe Rites of Queer Marriage in The Merchant of Venice / Arthur L. Little Jr. 216 The Merry Wives of WindsorWhat Do Women Want? / Jonathan Goldberg 225 A Midsummer Night's DreamShakespeare's Ass Play / Richard Rambuss 234 Much Ado About NothingClosing Ranks, Keeping Company: Marriage Plots and the Will to be Single in Much Ado About Nothing / Ann Pellegrini 245 OthelloOthello's Penis: Or, Islam in the Closet / Daniel Boyarin 254 Pericles"Curious Pleasures": Pericles beyond the Civility of Union / Patrick O'Malley 263 The Phoenix and the TurtleNumber There in Love Was Slain / Karl Steel 271 The Rape of LucreeDesire My Pilot Is / Peter Coviello 278 Richard IIPretty Richard / Judith Brown 286 Richard IIIFuck the Disabled: The Prequel / Robert McRuer 294 Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet Love Death / Carla Freccero 302 Sir Thomas MoreMore or Less Queer / Jeffrey Masten 309 The SonnetsMomma's Boy / Aranye Fradenburg 319 Speech Therapy / Barbara Johnson 328 More Life: Shakespeare's Sonnet Machines / Julian Yates 333 The Taming of the ShrewLatin Lovers in The Taming of the Shrew / Bruce Smith 343 The TempestForgetting The Tempest / Kevin Ohi 351 Timon of AthensSkepticism, Sovereignty, Sodomy / James Kuzner 361 Titus AndronicusA Child's Garden of Atrocities / Michael Moon 369 Troilus and CressidaThe Leather Men and the Lovely Boy: Reading Positions in Troilus and Cressida / Alan Sinfeild 376 Twelfth NightIs There an Audience for My Play? / Sharon Holland 385 The Two Gentlemen of VeronaPageboy, or The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Movie / Amy Villajero 394 The Two Noble KinsmenPhiladelphia, or War / Jody Greene 404 Venus and Adonis421Venus and Adonis Freeze / Andrew Nicholls 414 The Winter's TaleLost, or "Exit, Pursued by a Bear": Causing Queer Children on Shakespeare's TV / Kathryn Bond Stockton 421 References 429 Further Reading 449 Contributors 467 Index 477
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