Ching Yau
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099876
- eISBN:
- 9789882206625
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099876.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This volume poses new challenges to queer studies and demonstrates the study of Chinese sexuality as an emergent field currently emanating from multiple disciplines. Issues related to sexuality have ...
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This volume poses new challenges to queer studies and demonstrates the study of Chinese sexuality as an emergent field currently emanating from multiple disciplines. Issues related to sexuality have acquired a new visibility in China in the past several years. The growth of religious fundamentalists and global gay discourses, heightened media attention and even more intense censorship, LBGTIQ activist movements, and the struggles of sex workers, have all contributed to this visibility. There is an urgent need for intellectual work to articulate and analyze the complexity of issues of sexuality, and the ways in which different norms line up and become synonymous with one another, in order to build situated knowledge in strengthening the discursive power of non-normative sexual-subjects-in-alliance. This book showcases the work of scholars working mostly outside Euro-America and focuses on cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing. It is a sustained collections on Chinese non-normative sexual subjectivities and contemporary sexual politics published in English. It highlights the various ways in which different individuals and communities — including male sex workers, transsexual subjects, lesbians, and Indonesian migrants — negotiate with notions of normativity and modernity, fine-tuned according to the different power structures of each context, and making new and different meanings.Less
This volume poses new challenges to queer studies and demonstrates the study of Chinese sexuality as an emergent field currently emanating from multiple disciplines. Issues related to sexuality have acquired a new visibility in China in the past several years. The growth of religious fundamentalists and global gay discourses, heightened media attention and even more intense censorship, LBGTIQ activist movements, and the struggles of sex workers, have all contributed to this visibility. There is an urgent need for intellectual work to articulate and analyze the complexity of issues of sexuality, and the ways in which different norms line up and become synonymous with one another, in order to build situated knowledge in strengthening the discursive power of non-normative sexual-subjects-in-alliance. This book showcases the work of scholars working mostly outside Euro-America and focuses on cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing. It is a sustained collections on Chinese non-normative sexual subjectivities and contemporary sexual politics published in English. It highlights the various ways in which different individuals and communities — including male sex workers, transsexual subjects, lesbians, and Indonesian migrants — negotiate with notions of normativity and modernity, fine-tuned according to the different power structures of each context, and making new and different meanings.
Laura Doan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226001586
- eISBN:
- 9780226001753
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226001753.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Recent queer history has begun to demonstrate that “queer” is very much a historical and historicized category. New work on the variations of sexuality has shown what a queer historical practice—as ...
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Recent queer history has begun to demonstrate that “queer” is very much a historical and historicized category. New work on the variations of sexuality has shown what a queer historical practice—as an epistemology and a methodology—might look like. However, progress in the development of queer historical practice belies the persistence of an “uncomfortable tension” between lesbian/gay history and queer studies. This chapter examines the results of the border crossings between academic history and queer studies in order to clarify what is at stake in determining how or if the history that outsiders produce differs from that of professionals. Some queer critics fashion a historical practice to suit their arguments and show little inclination to deepen their understanding of its range and diversity. Some trained historians, on the other hand, construe queer historical work as cultural criticism and miss opportunities to engage with bold queer theorizing of historicity, transhistoricism, temporality, and change.Less
Recent queer history has begun to demonstrate that “queer” is very much a historical and historicized category. New work on the variations of sexuality has shown what a queer historical practice—as an epistemology and a methodology—might look like. However, progress in the development of queer historical practice belies the persistence of an “uncomfortable tension” between lesbian/gay history and queer studies. This chapter examines the results of the border crossings between academic history and queer studies in order to clarify what is at stake in determining how or if the history that outsiders produce differs from that of professionals. Some queer critics fashion a historical practice to suit their arguments and show little inclination to deepen their understanding of its range and diversity. Some trained historians, on the other hand, construe queer historical work as cultural criticism and miss opportunities to engage with bold queer theorizing of historicity, transhistoricism, temporality, and change.
Jaime Harker
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469643359
- eISBN:
- 9781469643373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643359.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
The introduction situates the literary movement of Southern lesbian feminism within Southern Studies, histories of feminism and lesbian feminist, and queer studies, and suggests that the archive of ...
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The introduction situates the literary movement of Southern lesbian feminism within Southern Studies, histories of feminism and lesbian feminist, and queer studies, and suggests that the archive of Southern lesbian feminism revises and challenges each scholarly speciality.Less
The introduction situates the literary movement of Southern lesbian feminism within Southern Studies, histories of feminism and lesbian feminist, and queer studies, and suggests that the archive of Southern lesbian feminism revises and challenges each scholarly speciality.
Alexis Lothian
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479811748
- eISBN:
- 9781479854585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479811748.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter 4 extends part 2’s analysis of queered and gendered black futurities to the realm of racialized queer masculinity, focusing on the work of Samuel R. Delany. His writing provides a bridge ...
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Chapter 4 extends part 2’s analysis of queered and gendered black futurities to the realm of racialized queer masculinity, focusing on the work of Samuel R. Delany. His writing provides a bridge between the discourse of “world-making” developed in utopian theories of queer performance and the idea of “world-building” common in science fiction studies. Delany’s fiction shows how the narrative tactics of science fiction, a genre whose most popular literary and media versions have tended to proffer timelines reliant on unmitigated heterosexuality, can turn against assumptions that the future must be straight, or at least arrived at through heterosexual reproductive logics. In Dhalgren (1974) and Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984), speculative iterations of 1970s and 1980s public sex cultures use genre tropes to reimagine sexual and racial temporalities in response both to the histories of enslavement and to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.Less
Chapter 4 extends part 2’s analysis of queered and gendered black futurities to the realm of racialized queer masculinity, focusing on the work of Samuel R. Delany. His writing provides a bridge between the discourse of “world-making” developed in utopian theories of queer performance and the idea of “world-building” common in science fiction studies. Delany’s fiction shows how the narrative tactics of science fiction, a genre whose most popular literary and media versions have tended to proffer timelines reliant on unmitigated heterosexuality, can turn against assumptions that the future must be straight, or at least arrived at through heterosexual reproductive logics. In Dhalgren (1974) and Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984), speculative iterations of 1970s and 1980s public sex cultures use genre tropes to reimagine sexual and racial temporalities in response both to the histories of enslavement and to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, this book provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of ...
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With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, this book provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, the text offers an overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the 1970s to the present day. This book recovers ties between two simultaneous renaissances of the late twentieth century: queer literature and Native American literature. It foregrounds how Indigeneity intervenes within and against dominant interpretations of queer genders and sexualities, recovering unfamiliar texts from the 1970s while presenting fresh, cogent readings of well-known works. In juxtaposing the work of Native authors—including the longtime writer-activist Paula Gunn Allen, the first contemporary queer Native writer Maurice Kenny, the poet Janice Gould, the novelist Louise Erdrich, and the filmmakers Sherman Alexie, Thomas Bezucha, and Jorge Manuel Manzano—with the work of queer studies scholars, the book proposes resourceful interventions in foundational concepts in queer studies while also charting new directions for queer Native studies.Less
With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, this book provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, the text offers an overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the 1970s to the present day. This book recovers ties between two simultaneous renaissances of the late twentieth century: queer literature and Native American literature. It foregrounds how Indigeneity intervenes within and against dominant interpretations of queer genders and sexualities, recovering unfamiliar texts from the 1970s while presenting fresh, cogent readings of well-known works. In juxtaposing the work of Native authors—including the longtime writer-activist Paula Gunn Allen, the first contemporary queer Native writer Maurice Kenny, the poet Janice Gould, the novelist Louise Erdrich, and the filmmakers Sherman Alexie, Thomas Bezucha, and Jorge Manuel Manzano—with the work of queer studies scholars, the book proposes resourceful interventions in foundational concepts in queer studies while also charting new directions for queer Native studies.
Clare Croft
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199377329
- eISBN:
- 9780199377350
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199377329.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
The Introduction offers key modes of entry into the larger project, both the anthology and the performance documentation and interview material on the website. First, the essay situates the larger ...
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The Introduction offers key modes of entry into the larger project, both the anthology and the performance documentation and interview material on the website. First, the essay situates the larger stakes of the project, identifying key impulses, including the centering of feminism, the representation of a range of queer geographies, a gathering of both concert and social dance forms, and a commitment to anti-racist and postcolonial work. Second, the essay positions Queer Dance relative to a range of definitions of queer. Third, the essay considers the larger ramifications of the project for both dance and queer studies. Finally, the essay concludes with an overview of the project, including offering possible pairings of the works that encourage “promiscuous engagements,” a spectatorial mode described as particularly queer in its openness to how work—both written and performed—might collide into provocative meaning-making.Less
The Introduction offers key modes of entry into the larger project, both the anthology and the performance documentation and interview material on the website. First, the essay situates the larger stakes of the project, identifying key impulses, including the centering of feminism, the representation of a range of queer geographies, a gathering of both concert and social dance forms, and a commitment to anti-racist and postcolonial work. Second, the essay positions Queer Dance relative to a range of definitions of queer. Third, the essay considers the larger ramifications of the project for both dance and queer studies. Finally, the essay concludes with an overview of the project, including offering possible pairings of the works that encourage “promiscuous engagements,” a spectatorial mode described as particularly queer in its openness to how work—both written and performed—might collide into provocative meaning-making.
Katsuhiko Suganuma and Siu-lun Wong
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789888083701
- eISBN:
- 9789882209053
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083701.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Chapter 7 discusses the future implications as well as the challenges provoked by the research findings of this book. Drawing on Elspeth Probyn's concept of the desire to ‘belong’, the chapter ...
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Chapter 7 discusses the future implications as well as the challenges provoked by the research findings of this book. Drawing on Elspeth Probyn's concept of the desire to ‘belong’, the chapter suggests the need of shifting our analytical focus from identity to desire in the context of cross-culturation. This book's analyses of Japan's queer contact moments with the West shed light on the desire to make sense of one's being through the process of adapting, rearticulating, shifting, and redefining binary oppositions such as local/global, Asia/West, and self/other. It is argued that the case studies in this book follow the footsteps of several queer beings and their desire to belong somewhere that they have yet to reach; each step being part of surface tensions through which they constitute their desires – the desires to put their lives in motion.Less
Chapter 7 discusses the future implications as well as the challenges provoked by the research findings of this book. Drawing on Elspeth Probyn's concept of the desire to ‘belong’, the chapter suggests the need of shifting our analytical focus from identity to desire in the context of cross-culturation. This book's analyses of Japan's queer contact moments with the West shed light on the desire to make sense of one's being through the process of adapting, rearticulating, shifting, and redefining binary oppositions such as local/global, Asia/West, and self/other. It is argued that the case studies in this book follow the footsteps of several queer beings and their desire to belong somewhere that they have yet to reach; each step being part of surface tensions through which they constitute their desires – the desires to put their lives in motion.
Stephen Greer
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526113696
- eISBN:
- 9781526141941
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526113696.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book is a study of solo performance in the UK and western Europe since the turn of millennium that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and the demands of ...
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This book is a study of solo performance in the UK and western Europe since the turn of millennium that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and the demands of neoliberalism. With case studies drawn from across theatre, cabaret, comedy and live art – and featuring artists, playwrights and performers as varied as La Ribot, David Hoyle, Neil Bartlett, Bridget Christie and Tanja Ostojić – it provides an essential account of the diverse practices which characterize contemporary solo performance, and their significance to contemporary debates concerning subjectivity, equality and social participation.
Beginning in a study of the arts festivals which characterize the economies in which solo performance is made, each chapter animates a different cultural trope – including the martyr, the killjoy, the misfit and the stranger – to explore the significance of ‘exceptional’ subjects whose uncertain social status challenges assumed notions of communal sociability. These figures invite us to re-examine theatre’s attachment to singular lives and experiences, as well as the evolving role of autobiographical performance and the explicit body in negotiating the relationship between the personal and the political.
Informed by the work of scholars including Sara Ahmed, Zygmunt Bauman and Giorgio Agamben, this interdisciplinary text offers an incisive analysis of the cultural significance of solo performance for students and scholars across the fields of theatre and performance studies, sociology, gender studies and political philosophy.Less
This book is a study of solo performance in the UK and western Europe since the turn of millennium that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and the demands of neoliberalism. With case studies drawn from across theatre, cabaret, comedy and live art – and featuring artists, playwrights and performers as varied as La Ribot, David Hoyle, Neil Bartlett, Bridget Christie and Tanja Ostojić – it provides an essential account of the diverse practices which characterize contemporary solo performance, and their significance to contemporary debates concerning subjectivity, equality and social participation.
Beginning in a study of the arts festivals which characterize the economies in which solo performance is made, each chapter animates a different cultural trope – including the martyr, the killjoy, the misfit and the stranger – to explore the significance of ‘exceptional’ subjects whose uncertain social status challenges assumed notions of communal sociability. These figures invite us to re-examine theatre’s attachment to singular lives and experiences, as well as the evolving role of autobiographical performance and the explicit body in negotiating the relationship between the personal and the political.
Informed by the work of scholars including Sara Ahmed, Zygmunt Bauman and Giorgio Agamben, this interdisciplinary text offers an incisive analysis of the cultural significance of solo performance for students and scholars across the fields of theatre and performance studies, sociology, gender studies and political philosophy.
Cynthia Weber
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199795857
- eISBN:
- 9780190462055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795857.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
This chapter suggests that the discipline of international relations and the field of transnational/global queer studies suffer from mutual neglect. The effect of this mutual neglect is that ...
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This chapter suggests that the discipline of international relations and the field of transnational/global queer studies suffer from mutual neglect. The effect of this mutual neglect is that international relations underappreciates how sexuality functions in international relations theory and in foreign policy and that transnational/global queer studies underappreciates how sovereignty functions in transnational/global queer studies and in foreign policy. This book puts these two scholarly fields in conversation to begin to correct this problem. It argues that by putting (transnational/global) queer studies scholarship and (queer) IR scholarship in conversation around sexuality and sovereignty, not only do a plethora of sexualized and sovereign national, regional, and international figurations and their stakes for IR and for queer studies come into focus. So, too, do what this chapter calls queer logics of statecraft that confirm, contest, and extend understandings of how the will to knowledge about sexualized sovereign subjectivities functions in domestic and international games of power.Less
This chapter suggests that the discipline of international relations and the field of transnational/global queer studies suffer from mutual neglect. The effect of this mutual neglect is that international relations underappreciates how sexuality functions in international relations theory and in foreign policy and that transnational/global queer studies underappreciates how sovereignty functions in transnational/global queer studies and in foreign policy. This book puts these two scholarly fields in conversation to begin to correct this problem. It argues that by putting (transnational/global) queer studies scholarship and (queer) IR scholarship in conversation around sexuality and sovereignty, not only do a plethora of sexualized and sovereign national, regional, and international figurations and their stakes for IR and for queer studies come into focus. So, too, do what this chapter calls queer logics of statecraft that confirm, contest, and extend understandings of how the will to knowledge about sexualized sovereign subjectivities functions in domestic and international games of power.
Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter offers a provisional history of the authors, genres, and subjects of queer Native studies, narrating a map of relationships and thereby providing a much needed genealogy of the field. It ...
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This chapter offers a provisional history of the authors, genres, and subjects of queer Native studies, narrating a map of relationships and thereby providing a much needed genealogy of the field. It exhumes and invigorates genealogical connections, and as a way to demonstrate that the seeming renaissance of the twenty-first century stems from deep and abiding roots and long-standing Indigenous intellectual traditions. It also contributes to the ongoing conversation about queer images and texts in Native American and Aboriginal literatures.Less
This chapter offers a provisional history of the authors, genres, and subjects of queer Native studies, narrating a map of relationships and thereby providing a much needed genealogy of the field. It exhumes and invigorates genealogical connections, and as a way to demonstrate that the seeming renaissance of the twenty-first century stems from deep and abiding roots and long-standing Indigenous intellectual traditions. It also contributes to the ongoing conversation about queer images and texts in Native American and Aboriginal literatures.
Gayatri Gopinath
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814786437
- eISBN:
- 9780814786451
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814786437.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter examines the interrelationships among queer studies, diaspora studies, and area studies, with particular emphasis on the possibilities for a comparative queer studies project that is ...
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This chapter examines the interrelationships among queer studies, diaspora studies, and area studies, with particular emphasis on the possibilities for a comparative queer studies project that is routed and rooted in and through each of these fields. It considers the notion of the region as a way of interrogating the boundaries and presumptions of these disciplines as well as mapping sexual topographies in this transnational moment. It also places Tejaswini Niranjana's work, Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad, in conversation with the recent queer studies work on critical regionality in order to show how regional analyses can be used to foreground alternative solidarities and affiliations in the shadow of resurgent nationalisms and globalization. Finally, it explores the particular regional logic of gender and sexuality in Kerala, South India, and its representation, translation, and circulation in national and transnational circuits.Less
This chapter examines the interrelationships among queer studies, diaspora studies, and area studies, with particular emphasis on the possibilities for a comparative queer studies project that is routed and rooted in and through each of these fields. It considers the notion of the region as a way of interrogating the boundaries and presumptions of these disciplines as well as mapping sexual topographies in this transnational moment. It also places Tejaswini Niranjana's work, Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad, in conversation with the recent queer studies work on critical regionality in order to show how regional analyses can be used to foreground alternative solidarities and affiliations in the shadow of resurgent nationalisms and globalization. Finally, it explores the particular regional logic of gender and sexuality in Kerala, South India, and its representation, translation, and circulation in national and transnational circuits.
Lisa Tatonetti
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692781
- eISBN:
- 9781452949642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692781.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter analyzes Maurice Kenny’s early poetry from 1970s queer journals such as Fag Rag. Fag Rag is categorized as a gay male porn magazine because of its inclusion of essays with erotic content ...
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This chapter analyzes Maurice Kenny’s early poetry from 1970s queer journals such as Fag Rag. Fag Rag is categorized as a gay male porn magazine because of its inclusion of essays with erotic content and photographs and drawings of male bodies and sexual acts. Through the recovery and analysis of Kenny’s writing from Fag Rag, this chapter expands the understanding of the Native literary canon, showing that the current rise of queer Native studies and Two-Spirit critiques have their roots in an earlier time and in unexpected venues. Kenny’s writing from the periodicals of the gay cultural renaissance also highlights the ways in which Two-Spirit texts have offered new ways of reading, seeing, and imagining the world.Less
This chapter analyzes Maurice Kenny’s early poetry from 1970s queer journals such as Fag Rag. Fag Rag is categorized as a gay male porn magazine because of its inclusion of essays with erotic content and photographs and drawings of male bodies and sexual acts. Through the recovery and analysis of Kenny’s writing from Fag Rag, this chapter expands the understanding of the Native literary canon, showing that the current rise of queer Native studies and Two-Spirit critiques have their roots in an earlier time and in unexpected venues. Kenny’s writing from the periodicals of the gay cultural renaissance also highlights the ways in which Two-Spirit texts have offered new ways of reading, seeing, and imagining the world.
Tavia Nyong'o
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479856275
- eISBN:
- 9781479806386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479856275.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Challenging accounts of black gender and sexuality that equate radicalism with misogynistic and patriarchal values, this chapter looks to the subversive cinema and performance art of the 1960s for ...
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Challenging accounts of black gender and sexuality that equate radicalism with misogynistic and patriarchal values, this chapter looks to the subversive cinema and performance art of the 1960s for prefigurations of the gender and sex nonconformity of today. Placing in counterpoint the theater and cinema of Melvin van Peebles and the performance and conceptual art of Adrian Piper, this chapter foregrounds the role of a funk epistemology in both cases. Contemporary queer and transgender art and aesthetics can only gain, this chapter argues, by acknowledging these works as sources of fabulation.Less
Challenging accounts of black gender and sexuality that equate radicalism with misogynistic and patriarchal values, this chapter looks to the subversive cinema and performance art of the 1960s for prefigurations of the gender and sex nonconformity of today. Placing in counterpoint the theater and cinema of Melvin van Peebles and the performance and conceptual art of Adrian Piper, this chapter foregrounds the role of a funk epistemology in both cases. Contemporary queer and transgender art and aesthetics can only gain, this chapter argues, by acknowledging these works as sources of fabulation.
Lucille Cairns
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823255351
- eISBN:
- 9780823261079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823255351.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter focuses on a key text by the French pioneer of queer studies, Marie-Hélène Bourcier: Sexpolitiques: Queer Zones 2 (2005). Bourcier analyses the role of one central European institution, ...
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This chapter focuses on a key text by the French pioneer of queer studies, Marie-Hélène Bourcier: Sexpolitiques: Queer Zones 2 (2005). Bourcier analyses the role of one central European institution, the French Republican state, in relation to nation-state rights of sexual and other marginalized groups. She arraigns the resistance of L’Université française to “imported” intellectual paradigms such as cultural studies and queer. She interrogates the role of the openly gay politician Delanoë (dubbed the ‘homo republicanus’). Further, she links contemporary French xenophobia and Republican sexual democracy, and exposes the clash between French feminist politics and queer. Bourcier excoriates Republican universalism, but my own critique of her multiple critiques will explore the dangers of another form of universalism, viz. a conceptual universalism that posits “Queer” as the correct theory of politics.Less
This chapter focuses on a key text by the French pioneer of queer studies, Marie-Hélène Bourcier: Sexpolitiques: Queer Zones 2 (2005). Bourcier analyses the role of one central European institution, the French Republican state, in relation to nation-state rights of sexual and other marginalized groups. She arraigns the resistance of L’Université française to “imported” intellectual paradigms such as cultural studies and queer. She interrogates the role of the openly gay politician Delanoë (dubbed the ‘homo republicanus’). Further, she links contemporary French xenophobia and Republican sexual democracy, and exposes the clash between French feminist politics and queer. Bourcier excoriates Republican universalism, but my own critique of her multiple critiques will explore the dangers of another form of universalism, viz. a conceptual universalism that posits “Queer” as the correct theory of politics.
Liat Ben-Moshe, Che Gossett, Nick Mitchell, and Eric A. Stanley
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823265299
- eISBN:
- 9780823266685
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823265299.003.0017
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter presents a roundtable discussion on the intersections, divergences, and collisions between trans/queer politics and critical theory in service of abolishing the prison industrial ...
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This chapter presents a roundtable discussion on the intersections, divergences, and collisions between trans/queer politics and critical theory in service of abolishing the prison industrial complex. Working from recent interventions in critical prison studies that focus on the specificity of dis/ability, sexuality, and gender, the participants discuss the ways in which Derrida, Fanon, and Foucault push the analysis beyond legal comfort, prison reform, and constitutional fetishism. They consider a wide range of questions from the viability of contemporary formations of “queerness as anti-normativity” for the project of prison abolition, to the innocent/guilty binary as it appears in current mainstream political immigration debates and AIDS Action Now! and ACT UP HIV/AIDS activism, to the questions that arise with “neoliberal queer inclusion” in the carceral state. The responses pay careful attention to the perceived and possibly real antagonism between deconstruction and the materiality of prison, and they consider the moments when deconstruction can work in the interest of queer/trans, disability, race, and gender prison abolition activists.Less
This chapter presents a roundtable discussion on the intersections, divergences, and collisions between trans/queer politics and critical theory in service of abolishing the prison industrial complex. Working from recent interventions in critical prison studies that focus on the specificity of dis/ability, sexuality, and gender, the participants discuss the ways in which Derrida, Fanon, and Foucault push the analysis beyond legal comfort, prison reform, and constitutional fetishism. They consider a wide range of questions from the viability of contemporary formations of “queerness as anti-normativity” for the project of prison abolition, to the innocent/guilty binary as it appears in current mainstream political immigration debates and AIDS Action Now! and ACT UP HIV/AIDS activism, to the questions that arise with “neoliberal queer inclusion” in the carceral state. The responses pay careful attention to the perceived and possibly real antagonism between deconstruction and the materiality of prison, and they consider the moments when deconstruction can work in the interest of queer/trans, disability, race, and gender prison abolition activists.
James Joseph Dean
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814762752
- eISBN:
- 9780814785812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814762752.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter highlights queered and nonnormative heterosexualities among the Black and White straight men and women. Bringing a queer studies perspective to bear on the narratives of the straight ...
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This chapter highlights queered and nonnormative heterosexualities among the Black and White straight men and women. Bringing a queer studies perspective to bear on the narratives of the straight interviewees, it analyzes the nonnormative practices of some straight men by focusing on the emergence of metrosexual identifications among them. Queered straight identifications, in contrast, are a development exclusively found among the women featured. These women described their sexual experiences with other women, which ranged from same-sex desires and fantasies to sexual encounters with bisexual women, lesbians, and other straight women as well. Queered straight identifications reveals the limit of binary thinking in that it misses the complexity of sexual identifications in post-closeted contexts, where some women define themselves as straight but have same-sex desires and experiences that complicate simple binary understandings of people as either heterosexual or homosexual.Less
This chapter highlights queered and nonnormative heterosexualities among the Black and White straight men and women. Bringing a queer studies perspective to bear on the narratives of the straight interviewees, it analyzes the nonnormative practices of some straight men by focusing on the emergence of metrosexual identifications among them. Queered straight identifications, in contrast, are a development exclusively found among the women featured. These women described their sexual experiences with other women, which ranged from same-sex desires and fantasies to sexual encounters with bisexual women, lesbians, and other straight women as well. Queered straight identifications reveals the limit of binary thinking in that it misses the complexity of sexual identifications in post-closeted contexts, where some women define themselves as straight but have same-sex desires and experiences that complicate simple binary understandings of people as either heterosexual or homosexual.
Kent L. Brintnall
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226074696
- eISBN:
- 9780226074719
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226074719.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a ...
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Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines—including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art history, and film theory—this book explores the complex, ambiguous meanings of the enduring figure of the male-body-in-pain. Acknowledging that representations of men confronting violence and pain can reinforce ideas of manly tenacity, it also argues that they reveal the vulnerability of men's bodies and open them up to eroticization. Locating the roots of our cultural fascination with male pain in the crucifixion, the book analyzes the way narratives of Christ's death and resurrection both support and subvert cultural fantasies of masculine power and privilege. Through readings of works by Georges Bataille, Kaja Silverman, and more, it delineates the redemptive power of representations of male suffering and violence.Less
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines—including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art history, and film theory—this book explores the complex, ambiguous meanings of the enduring figure of the male-body-in-pain. Acknowledging that representations of men confronting violence and pain can reinforce ideas of manly tenacity, it also argues that they reveal the vulnerability of men's bodies and open them up to eroticization. Locating the roots of our cultural fascination with male pain in the crucifixion, the book analyzes the way narratives of Christ's death and resurrection both support and subvert cultural fantasies of masculine power and privilege. Through readings of works by Georges Bataille, Kaja Silverman, and more, it delineates the redemptive power of representations of male suffering and violence.
Peter A. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9789888083268
- eISBN:
- 9789888313907
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888083268.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
First Queer Voices from Thailand: Uncle Go’s Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians and Kathoeys is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson’s pioneering study of an Asian gay ...
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First Queer Voices from Thailand: Uncle Go’s Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians and Kathoeys is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson’s pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson’s narrative is “Uncle Go”, pen-name of the sexually libertarian but avowedly heterosexual editor of a popular magazine, whose “agony uncle” columns in the 1970s provided unique spaces in the national press for Thailand’s gays, lesbians and transgenders (kathoeys) to speak for themselves in the public domain. By allowing the voices of alternative sexualities to be heard, Uncle Go emerged as Thailand’s first champion of gender equality and sexual rights. Peter Jackson translates and analyzes selected correspondence from Uncle Go’s advice columns, preserving and presenting important primary sources. In this new edition, Jackson expands his coverage to include not only letters from Thai gay men, but also those from lesbians and transgenders, thus capturing the full diversity of Thailand’s modern queer cultures at a key moment in their historical development when new understandings of sexual identity were first communicated to the wider community.Less
First Queer Voices from Thailand: Uncle Go’s Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians and Kathoeys is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson’s pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson’s narrative is “Uncle Go”, pen-name of the sexually libertarian but avowedly heterosexual editor of a popular magazine, whose “agony uncle” columns in the 1970s provided unique spaces in the national press for Thailand’s gays, lesbians and transgenders (kathoeys) to speak for themselves in the public domain. By allowing the voices of alternative sexualities to be heard, Uncle Go emerged as Thailand’s first champion of gender equality and sexual rights. Peter Jackson translates and analyzes selected correspondence from Uncle Go’s advice columns, preserving and presenting important primary sources. In this new edition, Jackson expands his coverage to include not only letters from Thai gay men, but also those from lesbians and transgenders, thus capturing the full diversity of Thailand’s modern queer cultures at a key moment in their historical development when new understandings of sexual identity were first communicated to the wider community.
Allan Bérubé
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834794
- eISBN:
- 9781469603117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877982_berube.16
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This essay describes how, in the mid-1990s, Berube was deeply involved in his research on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. Beyond the reflections and writing it provoked about how class shaped ...
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This essay describes how, in the mid-1990s, Berube was deeply involved in his research on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. Beyond the reflections and writing it provoked about how class shaped his own life experience, this work also pushed Berube to think deeply and analytically about how class operates in society. Here, in an address to an academic queer studies conference, Berube moves back and forth between historical episodes and personal experience as ways of illustrating the pervasiveness of class, even as class often gets dismissed in the United States as inconsequential. He calls for making class central to how queer scholars frame their work. Berube asks tough questions of himself and others, including “Whose [class] position do I want to make stronger by doing my intellectual work?”Less
This essay describes how, in the mid-1990s, Berube was deeply involved in his research on the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. Beyond the reflections and writing it provoked about how class shaped his own life experience, this work also pushed Berube to think deeply and analytically about how class operates in society. Here, in an address to an academic queer studies conference, Berube moves back and forth between historical episodes and personal experience as ways of illustrating the pervasiveness of class, even as class often gets dismissed in the United States as inconsequential. He calls for making class central to how queer scholars frame their work. Berube asks tough questions of himself and others, including “Whose [class] position do I want to make stronger by doing my intellectual work?”
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690572
- eISBN:
- 9781452949413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690572.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, ...
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Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, it develops in detail the meaning, scope, and implications of the book’s central concept (settler common sense), elaborating its contribution to those three fields.Less
Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, it develops in detail the meaning, scope, and implications of the book’s central concept (settler common sense), elaborating its contribution to those three fields.
