...Christopher Castiglia Duke University Press 2000 6084 boundary 2 27:2 / sheet 157 of 227 Sex Panics, Sex Publics, Sex Memories Christopher Castiglia...

... also notes the emergence of queer and materialist hermeneutics in Irish scholarship and considers how these might expand and challenge the prevailing liberal historical model. What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex: Modernization and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Scholarship...

... The Second Sex , I argue that Beauvoir shares a critique of nihilism, though she gives the term more analytic precision and political purchase than those who would use the term against her. For Beauvoir, womanly nihilism—or the feminine will to nothingness—is paradoxically expressed in the desire...

... . Berlant Lauren Edelman Lee 2014 . Sex, or the Unbearable . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Birken Lawrence . 1999 . “ Freud’s ‘Economic Hypothesis’: From Homo Oeconomicus to Homo Sexualis .” American Imago 56 , no. 2 : 311 – 30 . Brown Gillian . 2001 . Consent...

....” “Today you can buy anything you want: your sex, your eye colour, your hair—there’s no place left for the imagination” (Love- quences of the epistemological and semantic collapsing of radically distinct notions of freedom within transition narratives, see my “Gardens of Things: The Vicissitudes...

... more interested in profits than in saving lives. The dominant mainstream public responses to AIDS in the 1980s were to demonize gay people for carrying or causing the disease and/or to demonize their sex practices and preach abstinence or “responsi- 10. These are Charles Barbour’s words...

... at one of the largest corporations in Japan, earning a “six-­figure salary.”1 Yet, by night, before heading back to the middle-­class home she lived in with her mother and her younger sister, she regularly engaged in sex work for an escort agency or as a freelancer on the street near the crime...

... Point of View (published in 1798 on the basis of decades of academic teaching), where he distinguishes five characters: the person, the sex, the people, the race, and the species (see the edition by Robert B. Louden [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006...

... Tom becomes/returns to his identity as Joey Cusack, his whole family reckons with itself in a new way—Jack brutally assaults his bullies at school, and Edie enters Tom’s darkness in the most intimate way (she has sex with Joey, not Tom, and uses her influence as a lawyer to protect Joey’s...

... by Duke University Press 2013 Parts of this article were first presented in a paper titled “Female Subjects of Globalization” at the conference “Situations postcoloniales et régimes de sexe,” Collège international de Philosophie and Université Paris 8, Paris, May 29-31, 2008. The conference paper...

... and of the intensification of bodily experiences, with the unencumbered “out” self as the ideal, is the road to freedom. This urges us to rethink the congruity between transgres- sive sexuality and liberation (FS, 6). Another case in point is the debate about same-­sex alliances. Even as opposition to same-­sex...

... hermaphrodites were treated as criminals because their ana- tomical disposition, indeed their very being, was in conflict with the law that distinguished between the sexes and prescribed their conjunction. In this course, the treatment is naturally more nuanced. Foucault notes that her- maphrodites were...

... to the website Danwei,1 allowed the drama to “slip through” its guidelines.2 Indeed, although at one point the SARFT criticized Woju for its “bone-­baring” directness about sex,3 1. Danwei, founded by Jeremy Goldkorn in 2003, is a website about media, advertising, and urban life in China. It uses...

.... Martin’s Press. Stokes, Mason. The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. Stratton, Jon. The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consump- tion. Urbana and Chicago: University...

.... Michelle Chilcoat is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Her research and teaching address the complicity of enlightenment, romantic, and modernist epistemologies in the colonialist biopoli- tics of race, sex/gender, and class. Her essays have...

... and even violent sexual rela- tions with her men finally impel her to self- destruction (526). There is plenty of evidence linking the dream with punishment for sin, with omens and the plausibility of belief in them, and/or (following Browning) with the supposed coarseness or violence of sex as Anna sup...

... are moieties or segments of one body. But the segments are sexes.” 11 On one level, a literal absence or presence of women may not make or break a fraternity; depending on whether the incorporation of women questions basic features of ritual initiation and asymmetrical relations, it might extend fraternal...

... or sense; most American critics simply discard or dismiss its historical reference. Western reception aside, reactions vary a great deal even among Chinese audiences in the People’s Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It is now well known that the sex scenes in the film were removed in a cut...

... understanding of gender as a sociocultural category that is pressured by geopolitical and historical formations. There is (or should be) a shared understanding, then, that womanhood is not dictated by female sex assignment at birth or whiteness. And yet, black women—trans and nontrans—remain excluded...

...- surement and historical research to the study of physical manhood and the distribution of population by dwelling, age, and sex; they have compared and followed the trend of systems of government and political organization; they have given long and minute study to the multitudinous phenomena...