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by Lauren Berlant, Kathleen Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are...
The Queen of America Goes to Washington City
Essays on Sex and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1997
In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over...
by Richard Thompson Ford, Lauren Berlant, Mark Kelman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
In recent decades, left political projects in the United States have taken a strong legalistic turn. From affirmative action to protection against sexual harassment, from indigenous peoples’ rights to gay marriage, the struggle to eliminate subordination or exclusion and to achieve substantive equality...
Red Nails, Black Skates
Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
In her forties, Erica Rand bought a pair of figure skates to vary her workout routine. Within a few years, the college professor was immersed in adult figure skating. Here, in short, incisive essays, she describes the pleasures to be found in the rink, as well as the exclusionary practices that make...
¿Entiendes?
Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1995
"¿Entiendes?" is literally translated as "Do you understand? Do you get it?" But those who do "get it" will also hear within this question a subtler meaning: "Are you queer? Are you one of us?" The issues of gay and lesbian identity represented by this question...
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil
Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the historical development and contemporary dynamics of LGBT activism in Latin America’s two largest democracies. Rafael de la Dehesa focuses on the ways that LGBT activists have engaged with the state, particularly...
The Ruling Passion
British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In The Ruling Passion, Christopher Lane examines the relationship between masculinity, homosexual desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the twentieth century. Questioning the popular assumption that Britain’s empire functioned with symbolic efficiency...
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...
Fragmented Memories
Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Fragmented Memories is a beautifully rendered exploration of how, during the 1990s, socially and economically marginalized people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam sought to produce a past on which to base a distinctive contemporary identity recognized within late-twentieth-century India....
Safe Space
Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be...
Breadwinners and Citizens
Gender in the Making of the French Social Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Laura Levine Frader’s synthesis of labor history and gender history brings to the fore failures in realizing the French social model of equality for all citizens. Challenging previous scholarship, she argues that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars...
Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation
A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation, Sandra McGee Deutsch brings to light the powerful presence and influence of Jewish women in Argentina. The country has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the third largest in the Western Hemisphere as a result of large-scale migration of Jewish...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes —whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means—from...
The Manly Masquerade
Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including...