Eve Goldberg: 20 books
by Linda Evans, Eve Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The prison business in the US is not based on locking up, punishing, or rehabilitating dangerous hoodlums. Follow the money and find how the prison-industrial complex fits into the New World Order of free trade and imprisoned people, the war on drugs, and capital flight.
by Jonathan Goldberg, Michèle Aina Barale, Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
After many years as one of the premier scholars of English Renaissance literature, Jonathan Goldberg turns his attention to the work of American novelist Willa Cather. With a focus on Cather’s artistic principle of “the thing not named,” Willa Cather and Others illuminates the contradictions...
After Sex?
On Writing since Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments,...
by Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and...
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
Where “Black” Meets “Queer”
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs “black” and “queer” and for black and queer people—overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame...
Touching Feeling
Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick...
Never Say I
Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers...
by Didier Eribon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel...
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay
Personal Essays, Public Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection...
The Un-Americans
Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part...
No Future
Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence...
Virtuous Vice
Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2000
In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O. Clarke examines the effects of inclusion within public culture. Departing from studies that emphasize homophobia and its mechanisms of exclusion, Virtuous Vice details how mainstream efforts to represent queers affirmatively continually...
The Wedding Complex
Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting...
Queer Iberia
Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1999
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period...
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