{"product_id":"an-archive-of-feelings-9780822330882","title":"An Archive of Feelings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues for the importance of recognizing - and archiving - accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. This title contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAn Archive of Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e makes an extremely important contribution to queer and feminist cultural studies by insisting upon the public, and indeed national, dimensions of sexual trauma. Ann Cvetkovich's book argues for the productive rather than repressive power of trauma and accounts for its role in the production of queer identities and queer counter publics. This is queer cultural studies at its finest!”—Judith Halberstam, author of \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”Avoiding bullshit moralism and sentimentality, Ann Cvetkovich breathes new life into the study of trauma. This is the book I looked for in so many libraries and bookstores and never found. It is not only brilliant but totally necessary.”—Kathleen Hanna of the band Le Tigre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Everyday Life of Queer Trauma 15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Trauma and Touch: Butch-Femme Sexualities 49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sexual Trauma\/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism, and Therapeutic Culture 83\u003cbr\u003e 4. Transnational Trauma and Queer Diasporic Publics 118\u003cbr\u003e 5. AIDS Activism and Public Feelings: Documenting ACT UP’s Lesbians 156\u003cbr\u003e 6. Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism: Mourning and Military Revisited 205\u003cbr\u003e 7. In the Archive of Lesbian Feelings 239\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 273\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: A Note on Interviews 289\u003cbr\u003e Notes 291\u003cbr\u003e Filmography 327\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 329\u003cbr\u003e Index 345","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406032347479,"sku":"9780822330882","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-archive-of-feelings-9780822330882","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}