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New York University Press Black Gay Man
Book SynopsisThe landmark book that established Robert Reid-Pharr as one of America''s most exciting and challenging left intellectualsAt turns autobiographical, political, literary, erotic, and humorous, Black Gay Man spoils our preconceived notions of not only what it means to be black, gay and male but also what it means to be a contemporary intellectual. Both a celebration of black gay male identity as well as a powerful critique of the structures that allow for the production of that identity, Black Gay Man introduced the eloquent voice of Robert Reid-Pharr in cultural criticism. At once erudite and readable, the range of topics and positions taken up in Black Gay Man reflect the complexity of American life itself. Treating subjects as diverse as the Million Man March, interracial sex, anti-Semitism, turn of the century American intellectualism as well as literary and cultural figures ranging from Essex Hemphill and Audre Lorde to W.E.B. DuBois, FrantTrade ReviewReid-Pharr brilliantly puts the ambivalences of bodily pleasure back into the serious business of identity politics. * Project Muse Book Review *Repeated readings are richly rewarded. * CHOICE *A wonderful thing of work and play, feeling and thought, that moves through my brain as though I needed to be reminded of why I chose life as an intellectual. Reading Black Gay Man I realized once again that we all do indeed need to be reminded that to think, write, and read about identity, in this moment of fear and hysteria around a & different' world, is to assist a necessary articulation: the new trying to make itself out ofnot separate fromthe carcass of the old. -- Wahneema Lubiano,Duke UniversityConsidering political events, publications, social movements and cultural developments that emerge from the early 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Robert Reid-Pharr looks outward so as to interrogate the very self he is understood to comprise. The result is a sort of anti-memoir of black gay male experience—a sustained rumination that so insistently inhabits the terms of that identity that it explodes them from the inside, making it impossible for any of us to bear them in quite the same way that we previously had. -- Phillip Brian Harper,author of Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social RelationsStartling and provocative. . . . Reid-Pharr presents a cogent analysis that combines the personal with the political, the intellectual with the emotional and the erotic. . . . Reid-Pharr's ability to move these works-and their themes-from the limited analysis of the academy into a broader realm of lived experience and social context that makes them, as well as Reid-Pharr's own thoughts, vital and genuinely consequential. * Publisher's Weekly *
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New York University Press Queer Latinidad
Book SynopsisAn examination into queer identity in relation to Latino/a AmericaAccording to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a Latin Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in relation to Latino/a America remains under examined. Juana María Rodríguez attempts to rectify this dearth of scholarship in Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces, by documenting the ways in which identities are transformed by encounters with language, the law, culture, and public policy. She identifies three key areas as the project's case studies: activism, primarily HIV prevention; immigration law; and cyberspace. In each, Rodríguez theorizes the ways queer Latino/a identities are enabled or constrained, melding several theoretical and methodological approaches to argue that these sites are complex and dynamic social fTrade Review"It is rare to find as vital and sassy and smart an essayist as Juana Rodríguez. She takes you through the intersections of culture and theory in ways that compel us to rethink what queer does to Latinidad as much as what Latinidad does to queer. She shows what it means, politically and culturally, to read for the possibility of survival and affirmation. She is careful, attentive, dynamic, disorienting, and exhilarating as she reads political and cultural events, literary and theoretical texts, and the nuances of language use for a complex cultural subject in process. A fabulous read." -- Judith Butler,Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of California at Berkeley"Mapping slippery subjects outside of fixed identities, this book is always against closure: Queer Latinidad at its best." -- José Quiroga,author of Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America"A fascinating critical approach to the development of the so-called latinidad, i.e., the identity of Latinos in the US. Unlike that in other ethno-queer studies, Rodríguez's data and primary texts of analysis are not literary works. Instead, this refreshing, funny, and daring book takes the reader through unexplored queer Latino communities.... Highly recommended." * Choice *"Rodríguez furthers her work . . . with an engaging writing style that is poetic, personal, philosophical and theoretical. . . . This book is highly recommended." * Reforma Newsletter *Table of Contents1 Divas, Atrevidas, y Entendidas: An Introduction to Identities 2 Activism and Identity in the Ruins of Representation 3 The Subject on Trial: Reading In re Tenorio as Transnational Narrative 4 "Welcome to the Global Stage": Confessions of a Latina Cyber-Slut
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New York University Press Sapphistries
Book SynopsisFrom the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. This title tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.Trade ReviewSapphistries is amazing.. -- John D'Emilio,author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in AmericaSapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women achieves what it set out to do by providing an overview of lesbian love from a historical and cultural perspective. * Popmatters.com *Every decade or so, a brave thinker makes an attempt to chart the historical maps of women loving women. Rupps contribution is perhaps one of the most elegant and interestingmaking up for the lapses of the past, Sapphistries sails an international course, giving us a rich mix of historical sources and an even richer gift of asking questions at just the right places. -- Joan Nestle,co-editor of GenderQueerRupps sweeping and highly readable synthesis of womens same-sex love and sexuality is also a finely crafted work of historical analysis. Her deep knowledge of the sources, from ancient to modern times, is truly impressive, while her use of literary imaginings make this a unique contribution to sexuality studies. -- Estelle Freedman,author of No Turning BackRupp has given us an invaluable history that promises to inform and inspire. * San Francisco Chronicle *Judicious, copious, scholarly and heartfelt, it will appeal equally to general readers and serious historians for its carefully chosen content and its novel methodology... As to methodology, Rupp is an old school historian who scrupulously recognizes the limitations of her craft, but who doesnt let those limitations keep her from rich imaginings and a refreshingly humane interest in the historical record... Sixty six pages of endnotes attest to the seriousness of the work; over two hundred pages of lucid and accessible prose make history fun again. * Salem Press, Magill Book Reviews *The narrative shines when Rupp describes love between women in its many forms, whether innocent (the schoolgirl & raves of early twentieth-century England) or romantic (intense & romantic friendships throughout the Western world) or outright erotic. With acute cultural sensitivity and a panoramic scope stretching from early Native American societies to contemporary India, Rupp delivers an academically rigorous and brilliantly told history. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Rupp succeeds in writing a fascinating and at times startling transnational history. . . . The range of this book is extraordinary. . . . Rupp has given us an invaluable history that promises to inform and inspire. * The San Francisco Chronicle *This is a useful source text that expands, rather than contracts, the interpretations of erotic subjectivities among women who desire women. * Historian *A fascinating book about the history of same-sex female attraction. . .reminds the reader all too poignantly never to take hard-won sexual freedoms for granted. * Bust Magazine *Rupps intellectually ambitious monograph attempts to present and trace the diverse threads of lesbian history in a worldwide and comparative framework... The resulting text is thought-provoking, readable, and challenging and belongs in every college and university library. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction 2 In the Beginning (40,000-1200 BCE) 3 In Ancient Worlds (3500 BCE-800 CE) 4 In Unlikely Places (500 BCE-1600 CE) 5 In Plain Sight (1100-1900) 6 Finding Each Other (1600-1900) 7 What's in a Name? (1890-1930) 8 In Public (1920-1980) 9 A World of Difference (1960-Present) 10 Conclusion Notes References Index About the Author
£70.30
New York University Press Queer Mobilizations LGBT Activists Confront the
Book SynopsisExamines how the LGBT movement's engagement with the law shapes the very meanings of sexuality, sex, gender, privacy, discrimination, and family in law and society. This book contains essays that highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT community.Trade ReviewThis book offers a brilliant introduction to the complexity of the relationship between the law and LGBT issues. * Social Movement Studies *Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law is an edited volume that reflects the burgeoning voice and growing favorability of the LGBT movement within the world's court systems . . .This collection of essays offers a welcome interdisciplinary supplement to those areas of LGBT scholarship most closely connected to the LGBT movement - namely, queer theory, queer history, and gender studies. -- Matthew Dean Hindman * Law and Politics Book Review *This volume is a precious contribution to the study of the relationships between the law and contemporary social movements. It should not only interest specialists on LGBT activism, but shouldalso attract a wider audience, including scholars working on legal mobilisation and interactions between thelaw and social movements. -- David Paternotte * Social Movement Studies *Queer Mobilizations is one of precious few volumes that manages to bridge divisions between legal and cultural analysis and between scholarship and partisanship. Brilliantly interdisciplinary, moving fluidly between & theory and empirical-legal analysis, these essays force us to approach law as central to the current struggles over the American erotic landscape. A truly must read! -- Steven Seidman,author of Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian LifeThis innovative collection of essays delves into the complex relationships between social movements and legal institutions. The essays creatively address the contradictory goals in the battles for social change by LGBT movements and the normalization that can often result from legal decisions. An essential and unique contribution. -- Peter M. Nardi,author of Gay Mens Friendships: Invincible CommunitiesWhat is the complicated relationship between the LGBT movement and the law? The contributors to this fascinating volume offer a rich and thoughtful analysis of this important question by exploring an array of important policy issues. Timely and well written, this book should be of keen interest to teachers, scholars, movement activists, and citizens. -- Craig A. Rimmerman,author of The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilationist or Liberationist?“The editors do an excellent job in bringing together a wide variety of work in this field. It is a particularly important addition to the scholarly discourse on activism and social change, where research on the benefits and limitations of legal strategies for social movements is sorely needed. * American Journal of Sociology *“This volume will be useful to scholars who want to examine the relationship between legal institutions and social movements generally and to those who want to examine the how [sic] this relationship relates to the LGBT movement specifically... it presents a survey of the range of tactics social movements use to achieve change in legal institutions and the ways legal institutions provide barriers and opportunities for broader social change. * Mobilization *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Challenge of Law Mary Bernstein, Anna-Maria Marshall, and Scott Barclay Part I Social Movement Strategies and the Law 2 Deferral of Legal Tactics Ashley Currier 3 Queer Legal Victories Darren Rosenblum 4 Intimate Equality Nicholas Pedriana 5 Deciding Under the Influence? Courtenay W. Daum 6 Parents and Paperwork Susan M. Sterett Part II Activism, Discourse, and Legal Change 7 The Reform of Sodomy Laws From a World Society Perspective David John Frank, Steven A. Boutcher, and Bayliss Camp 8 Like Sexual Orientation? Like Gender? Amy L. Stone 9 Pushing the Envelope Charles W. Gossett 10 Explaining the Differences Marybeth Herald Part III Legal Symbols 11 It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango Shauna Fisher 12 Do Civil Rights Have a Face? Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller 13 A Jury of One's Queers Casey Charles 14 The Gay Divorcee Ellen Ann Andersen Notes References Contributors Index
£62.90
New York University Press Queer Mobilizations LGBT Activists Confront the
Book SynopsisThese essays highlight the struggle to make the law relevant and responsive to the LGBT communityTrade Review"This book offers a brilliant introduction to the complexity of the relationship between the law and LGBT issues." * Social Movement Studies *"Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law is an edited volume that reflects the burgeoning voice and growing favorability of the LGBT movement within the world's court systems . . .This collection of essays offers a welcome interdisciplinary supplement to those areas of LGBT scholarship most closely connected to the LGBT movement - namely, queer theory, queer history, and gender studies." -- Matthew Dean Hindman * Law and Politics Book Review *"This volume is a precious contribution to the study of the relationships between the law and contemporary social movements. It should not only interest specialists on LGBT activism, but shouldalso attract a wider audience, including scholars working on legal mobilisation and interactions between thelaw and social movements." -- David Paternotte * Social Movement Studies *"Queer Mobilizations is one of precious few volumes that manages to bridge divisions between legal and cultural analysis and between scholarship and partisanship. Brilliantly interdisciplinary, moving fluidly between & theory and empirical-legal analysis, these essays force us to approach law as central to the current struggles over the American erotic landscape. A truly must read!" -- Steven Seidman,author of Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life"This innovative collection of essays delves into the complex relationships between social movements and legal institutions. The essays creatively address the contradictory goals in the battles for social change by LGBT movements and the normalization that can often result from legal decisions. An essential and unique contribution." -- Peter M. Nardi,author of Gay Mens Friendships: Invincible Communities"What is the complicated relationship between the LGBT movement and the law? The contributors to this fascinating volume offer a rich and thoughtful analysis of this important question by exploring an array of important policy issues. Timely and well written, this book should be of keen interest to teachers, scholars, movement activists, and citizens." -- Craig A. Rimmerman,author of The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilationist or Liberationist?"“The editors do an excellent job in bringing together a wide variety of work in this field. It is a particularly important addition to the scholarly discourse on activism and social change, where research on the benefits and limitations of legal strategies for social movements is sorely needed." * American Journal of Sociology *"“This volume will be useful to scholars who want to examine the relationship between legal institutions and social movements generally and to those who want to examine the how [sic] this relationship relates to the LGBT movement specifically... it presents a survey of the range of tactics social movements use to achieve change in legal institutions and the ways legal institutions provide barriers and opportunities for broader social change." * Mobilization *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Challenge of Law Mary Bernstein, Anna-Maria Marshall, and Scott Barclay Part I Social Movement Strategies and the Law 2 Deferral of Legal Tactics Ashley Currier 3 Queer Legal Victories Darren Rosenblum 4 Intimate Equality Nicholas Pedriana 5 Deciding Under the Influence? Courtenay W. Daum 6 Parents and Paperwork Susan M. Sterett Part II Activism, Discourse, and Legal Change 7 The Reform of Sodomy Laws From a World Society Perspective David John Frank, Steven A. Boutcher, and Bayliss Camp 8 Like Sexual Orientation? Like Gender? Amy L. Stone 9 Pushing the Envelope Charles W. Gossett 10 Explaining the Differences Marybeth Herald Part III Legal Symbols 11 It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango Shauna Fisher 12 Do Civil Rights Have a Face? Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller 13 A Jury of One's Queers Casey Charles 14 The Gay Divorcee Ellen Ann Andersen Notes References Contributors Index
£27.54
New York University Press The Queerest Art
Book SynopsisFrom Shakespeare''s gender-bending play Twelfth Night to the the critically-acclaimed Broadway hit Angels in America, from 17th century kabuki theater of Japan?performed by cross-dressing prostitutes?to the NEA-denounced performance art of Holly Hughes, theater has long been?as co-editor Alisa Solomon terms it?the queerest art. The Queerest Art is a pioneering collection of essays by and conversations among a diverse range of leading theater academics and artists. The first anthology to bring scholars and makers of queer theater into direct dialogue, the volume explores such subjects as same-sex desire in Restoration comedy, the racialized impact of colonial Shakespeare, the cuerpo politizado of a performance artist in contemporary Los Angeles, and the nitty-gritty of getting a queer show presented in Peoria. The Queerest Art rereads the history of performance as a celebration and critique of dissident sexualities, exploring the politics of pleasureTrade Review"A rich and varied collection, featuring the voices both of academics and theatre practitioners." * American Theatre *"The panel discussions...contributes a warm, witty and deliciously rhetorical piece." * Lambda Book Report *"This stimulating collection of essays critically examines and celebrates what, for centuries, many have deeply feared and many others have known and cherished to be true-that theatre is, indeed, the queerest art. The special ephermerality and perilousness of queer existence on- and offstage make this volume's excellently rendered project of documentation through performance, writing, and publication not only admirable and necessary but urgent." * The Drama Review *"Eclectic array of essays." * Theater Journal *Table of Contents1 Great Sparkles of Lust: Homophobia and the Antitheatrical Tradition 2 The Queer Root of Theater 3 "Porno-Tropics": Some Thoughts on Shakespeare, Colonialism, and Sexuality 4 Setting the Stage behind the Seen: Performing Lesbian History 5 "The Man I Love": The Erotics of Friendship in Restoration Theater 6 "Be True to Yearning": Notes on the Pioneers of Queer Theater 7 From the Invisible to the Ridiculous: The Emergence of an Out Theater Aesthetic 8 Queer Theater and the Disarticulation of Identity 9 Out across America: Playing from P.S. 122 to Peoria 10 "Being" a Lesbian: Apple Island and the Performance of Community 11 "Preaching to the Converted" 12 Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Politizado 13 When We Were Warriors 14 The Kids Stay in the Picture, or, Toward a New Queer Theater 15 Goodnight Irene: An Endnote
£23.74
New York University Press Gay Warriors
Book SynopsisIn Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achelleus to Lawrence of Arabia gays and lesbians have played a crucial but often hidden role in military campaigns.Trade Review"B.R. Burg in Gay Warriors, through a vivid series of pictures from the ancient to the contemporary world, presents clear evidence that homosexual desire between fighting men in most times and places has contributed to the effectiveness of armies. The modern homosexual/heterosexual distinction has changed this over the last three centuries, but there is every reason to expect that the rise of the gay and lesbian movement may serve to restore an older tradition. The book's original sources stimulate the imagination, and this is especially true of the navy and army courts-martial since 1700. The book is a major contribution to a heated contemporary controversy." -- Randolph Trumbach,Professor of History, Baruch College and the Grad Center, City University of New York"The reprinted documents are what makes Burg's book valuable, and they allow readers to judge for themselves whether gays and lesbians deserve to be fully integrated into the modern military." * The Journal of Sex Research *"Important...a truly fascinating reading on this controversial subject." * Library Journal *
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University of Arizona Press RedInked Retablos
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£17.56
University of Arizona Press Queer Indigenous Studies
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University of Arizona Press Them Goon Rules
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University of Minnesota Press The Souls of Cyberfolk Posthumanism as
Book SynopsisConsiders the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in virtual reality.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction. Cyberpunk's Posthuman Afterlife1. The Legacies of Cyberpunk Fiction: New Cultural Formations and the Emergence of the Posthuman2. Meat Puppets or Robopaths: The Question of (Dis)Embodiment in Neuromancer3. The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic: Posthuman Narratives and Constructions of Desire 4. Trapped by the Body: Telepresence Technologies and Transgendered Performance 5. The Souls of Cyberfolk: Performativity, Virtual Embodiment, and Racial Histories6. Replaying the L.A. Riots: Cyborg Narratives and National Traumas7. Franchise Nationalisms: Globalization, Consumer Culture, and New EthnicitiesConclusion. The Antinomies of Posthuman ThoughtNotesWorks CitedIndex
£18.89
University of Minnesota Press Metropolitan Lovers The Homosexuality of Cities
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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
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University of Minnesota Press Queer Twin Cities
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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
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University of Minnesota Press Opacity and the Closet Queer Tactics in Foucault
Book SynopsisLooking beyond the closet at the lives and works of renowned queer public figuresTable of ContentsContentsPreface. Bartleby's Queer FormulaIntroduction. Opacities: Queer Strategies1. Confessions of a Masked Philosopher: Anonymity and Identification in Foucault and Guibert2. Matte Figures: Roland Barthes's Ethics of Meaning3. "What Do You Have to Say for Yourself?" Warhol's Opacity4. Unseen Warhol/Seeing Barthes5. Andy Warhol Up-Tight: Warhol's EffectsConclusion. The Interview as Multi-Mediated ObjectAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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University of Alabama Press Rhetorical Secrets Mapping Gay Identity and Queer
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Queering the South on Screen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
£22.49
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
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