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Series: Series Q
Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1215/9780822396024-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9602-4
Series: Perverse modernities
Published: 27 February 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822381020-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8102-0
Series: Series Q
Published: 01 January 1996
DOI: 10.1215/9780822397649-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9764-9
Published: 16 March 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393900-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9390-0
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By Cui Zi’en, Petrus Liu, Lisa Rofel
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 05 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5906-6
... queer childhood coming of age Chinese socialism ...
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By Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Published: 08 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2777-5
... queer childhood Andrew Ahn selfobjects Korean American Koreatown ...
Published: 08 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027775-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2777-5
... is nurtured by the various experiences with the self, his mother, and his new friend, an older Korean War veteran who lives next door. These adults’ unconditional love and care encourage an agentic attunement to the self and an achievement of equanimity for the queer child. queer childhood Andrew Ahn...
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059066-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5906-6
.... Ultimately, this artfully reflexive fairytale challenges any complacent assumptions about the universal straightness of everyday life under socialism. queer childhood coming of age Chinese socialism ...
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By I. Augustus Durham
Published: 17 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027652-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2765-2
... Marvin Gaye's “Trouble Man” elicits dual amazement: its presentation, predominantly performed in his falsetto, and the moment of a primal scream. The opening lyrics engender confusion as one discerns what exactly Marvin sings; this perplexity situates how his queer childhood sets a precedent...
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By Jill Johnston, Clare Croft
Published: 20 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059943-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5994-3
... Chapter 7 focuses on Jill Johnston’s writing about her personal life, particularly her childhood and her relationship to her mother. queer adolescence mother-daughter relationships Village Voice ...
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By David M. Halperin, Trevor Hoppe
Published: 03 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7314-8
... in the national drama. Beginning in the mid-1970s, a succession of modern sex crime panics have redefined childhood, reshaped American social institutions, fostered new forms of identity based on victimization, eroded democratic legal norms, and contributed to the development of a deeply seated culture of fear...
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059066-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5906-6
... Through the narrator’s reflections on his childhood, desire, love, and rejection are poignantly explored in same-sex and heterosexual dynamics. His contemplations of the deaths he encountered as a child add a level of spiritual meditation. Like Spinoza’s free man, the narrator aspires to think...
Published: 08 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027775-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2777-5
... in childhood sexual trauma deeply imbricated within race and class. The theorizations of the true and false self and the good and not good enough mother by psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott unpack the trauma of Cunanan’s racialized life and the carnage he left in his wake. Cunanan’s experience of distrust...
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By Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Published: 08 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2777-5
... Alice Wu queer youth lesbian interracial romance cultural complex ...
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By Cui Zi’en, Petrus Liu, Lisa Rofel
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 05 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5906-6
... death desire childhood sublime wisdom Christianity ...
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By Moon Charania
Published: 30 June 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024101-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2410-1
... The introduction opens with a childhood story about tongues that Charania heard as a little girl. Using this story as a way into the onto-epistemologies her mother's tongue passed on and, more broadly, the brown maternal, this chapter explores the multiple ways the tongue is considered a “bad...
Published: 08 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027775-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2777-5
... perspective and desire, and it avoids the way in which certain bodies are treated in American cinema—where violence befalls those who present as genderqueer. The film exposes what can be learned from global cinema in terms of queer children’s self-sovereignty, where sexuality is not the primary social...
Published: 08 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027775-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2777-5
.... Alice Wu queer youth lesbian interracial romance cultural complex ...