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Are the Lips a Grave? |
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Lynne Huffer. |
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GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17 (2011) 4 , p. 517-542.
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This essay articulates a queer feminist ethics of eros by rereading Luce Irigaray through a Foucauldian lens. After an inquiry into Irigaray's absence from queer theory, the essay makes a case for Irigaray as a resource for queer thinking by exploring the philosophical antifoundationalism she and queer theorists share. Focusing specifically on the antisocial thesis of queer theory, especially in the work of Leo Bersani and Janet Halley, the essay first examines the contentious relation between feminist and queer conceptions of sexual ethics before addressing new possibilities for a queer feminist ethics. Reading Irigaray's ethics of eros through an ethical Foucauldian lens, the essay accomplishes three objectives: (1) it analyzes the virtually unexplored relation between Irigaray and Foucault to make the case for a queer Irigaray; (2) it unravels the aporetic knot of sexual ethics at the heart of queer feminist splits; and (3) it deepens our philosophical understanding of sexual difference and erotic desubjectivation in modernity by elaborating a queer feminist ethics. |
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Homodok: ts.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: A Special Section |
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H.A. Sedgwick ... [et al.]. |
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GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17 (2011) 4 , p. 451-516.
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When Eve died, in April 2009, her papers were scattered, disorganized, and incomplete. The process of sorting through, organizing, and preserving what remains is still ongoing. In August 2009 we were looking through a box marked "Eve's personal papers" that had been stored in a rented storage locker. Among the papers was a photocopy of a typescript of "The 1001 Seances," Eve's essay on James Merrill. I remembered the paper, but it had been many years since Eve had mentioned it to me, and I had not known that it still existed. As far as we knew then, this was the only surviving copy. The typescript was undated, but something about the date could be inferred from the Cornell University address in its heading. Eve's paper focuses on "The Book of Ephraim" in Merrill's The Divine Comedies, which was first published in 1976. After five years as a graduate student and instructor at Yale, Eve had moved to Cornell in the fall of 1976, supported by a two-year postdoctoral Mellon fellowship. So this typescript was produced during her fellowship. It's quite possible, however, that she was already working on the essay during her last year at Yale. We can further narrow down the date to the first year of Eve's fellowship because of a letter in her files dated June 7, 1977, from the editor of Salmagundi. The letter declines to accept "The 1001 Seances" but encourages resubmission with some changes to make it less "like an academic paper." It appears that Eve chose not to change her paper. We prepared a clean, digitized copy of the paper. In doing so, we checked Eve's quotations from Merrill and made a few small corrections. Additionally, Eve had made a few very minor handwritten changes in wording on the photocopy, and we have incorporated those. |
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Homodok: ts.
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| Title: |
Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why : The Science of Sexual Orientation |
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Simon LeVay. |
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press. 2011 - xvii, 412 p.
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9780199737673 |
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Bibliogr.: p. 331-392. |
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What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain. LeVay helped create this field in 1991 with a much-publicized study in Science, where he reported on a difference in the brain structure between gay and straight men. Since then, an entire scientific discipline has sprung up around the quest for a biological explanation of sexual orientation. In this book, LeVay provides a clear explanation of where the science stands today, taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of laboratories that specialize in genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, and family demographics. He describes, for instance, how researchers have manipulated the sex hormone levels of animals during development, causing them to mate preferentially with animals of their own gender. LeVay also reports on the prevalence of homosexual behavior among wild animals, ranging from Graylag geese to the Bonobo chimpanzee. Although many details remain unresolved, the general conclusion is quite clear: A person's sexual orientation arises in large part from biological processes that are already underway before birth. LeVay also makes it clear that these lines of research have a lot of potential because, far from seeking to discover "what went wrong" in the lives of gay people, attempting to develop "cures" for homosexuality, or returning to traditional explanations that center on parent-child relationships, various forms of "training," or early sexual experiences, our modern scientists are increasingly seeing sexual variety as something to be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into society. |
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Homodok: cat. (levay/gay) b boven
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José Garcia Villas Modernism and the Politics of Queer Diasporic Reading |
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Martin Joseph Ponce. |
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GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17 (2011) 4 , p. 575-602.
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Regarded as the first anglophone Filipino literary modernist, José Garcia Villa (1908-1997) has typically been seen as an aesthetic formalist who refused to place literature in the service of national or ethnic politics. This essay rethinks this presumption by pursuing a queer diasporic approach to Villa's early fiction and essays of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing in particular on his queer critiques of gender and sexual normativity in the Philippines and of social assimilation in the United States. Situating Villa's engagements with nonnormative eroticism within a transnational context structured by U.S. colonialism and migration, the article contends with and resists the seductions of U.S. homonationalism while seeking to decolonize some of the critical assumptions informing the relation between the queer present and the queer(ed) past. |
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Homodok: ts.
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Moving Image Review : Lesbian Archives |
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Alexandra Juhasz ... [et al.]. |
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GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17 (2011) 4 , p. 619-647.
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For this Moving Image Review we brought together lesbian and queer artists, academics, activists, and archivists who look to and save media objects and practices of the past and present, using a range of methods and vernaculars, in the name of marking, sharing, and preserving lesbian culture. If we think of this collection about lesbian archives as itself an archive, that makes us the archivists, GLQ the institutional home, and you the researcher. We invite you, the readerresearcher, to join us in activating and perusing this lesbian archive. You might consider why these eclectic writings were made, saved, grouped, and presented and what this tells us about queer media, archives, and lesbians past and present. The same questions were asked when one of us (Juhasz) gained access to the Women's Building video archive or when another of our contributors, Catherine Lord, delved into and across the covers of lesbian pulp fiction. Our other contributors study or practice media archiving itself - Kristin Pepe of the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation; Yvonne Welbon, who speaks to Julia Wallace and Alexis Pauline Gumbs about their Queer Black Mobile Homecoming; and David Oscar Harvey, in conversation with Sarah Schulman about the Act Up History Project, which she creates with Jim Hubbard. They bring to this lesbian archive their individual and communal reflections of the will to save and preserve via media so as to remember lesbian love, death, activism, and generation. |
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Homodok: ts.
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| Title: |
The Straightest Story Ever Told |
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Richard Rambuss. |
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GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 17 (2011) 4 , p. 543-573.
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A revisionary understanding of the Passion of Christ lies at the crux of the spiritual cultural work that Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code (2003) undertakes no less so than in Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ (2004). Both works, each highly didactic in its own way, look to make a popular intervention into contemporary spirituality, as well as, by implication, notions of the family, marriage, and sexuality. But whereas in Gibson's film the Passion is all divine death drive - all thanatos - Brown's novel reconceives Jesus's Passion in terms of eros, though on the most heteroaggrandizing scale conceivable. Each work thus contrives its own ways to diminish, even to oust, elements of the Jesus story that could be seen to challenge sexual orthodoxies and normative familial arrangements. In its treatment of these two recent popular religious blockbusters, this essay extends across queer devotional terrain what Stephen Prothero has lately put forth as the "quest for the cultural Jesus." It is especially concerned with what has been made of the special relation to Jesus of Mary Magdalene and John the Beloved, the two most alluring of his biblical disciples. |
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Homodok: ts.
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The world some have won : Sexuality, class and inequality |
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Elizabeth McDermott. |
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Sexualities, 14 (2011) 1 (feb), p. 63-78.
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This article addresses inequalities and injustices arising at the intersection of class and sexuality. Recent legislation has enshrined sexual diversity within the UK creating the possibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to lead legitimated lives. The experience of living within this new liberal sexual framework is likely to be mediated by social class. Drawing on two empirical studies and utilizing Bourdieu's conceptualization of class, and queer theory, I highlight, using the example of young LGBT people's post-compulsory schooling choices, the importance of focusing upon the interaction between sexual identity and class to understand the unequal ways LGBT people may negotiate the transformations in intimate and sexual life. |
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