Michael Goldberg: 37 books
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...
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...
Making Girls into Women
American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology...
Getting Medieval
Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities—dissident and orthodox—in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry...
by Carla Freccero, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
In Queer/Early/Modern, Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. Freccero...
Working Like a Homosexual
Camp, Capital, Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2002
What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters, Working Like a Homosexual responds to these questions by arguing that...
Foundlings
Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
What is it like to “feel historical”? In Foundlings Christopher Nealon analyzes texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century—poems by Hart Crane, novels by Willa Cather, gay male physique magazines, and lesbian pulp fiction. Nealon brings these diverse...
La corrección política
¿Hay vida inteligente entre el insulto y la dictadura del buenismo?
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 28, 2019
¿La corrección política es enemiga de la libertad de expresión, el debate abierto y el intercambio de ideas? O, por el contrario, ¿reformulando el lenguaje para incluir en él a grupos minoritarios construimos una sociedad más justa e igualitaria?
Algunos opinan que la corrección política...