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...Elissa Marder This essay explores how Baudelaire’s insistence on perverse forms of nonreproductive sexuality (what is here called “bad sex”) exposes critical aspects of his poetics and his relation to the question of aesthetics. It takes up two of Baudelaire’s most famous poems (“To the Reader...

... their theories of bad sex. By taking bad sex as the model for women’s oppression, seventies feminists crafted a culturalist theory of patriarchy logically culminating in lesbian separatism. This theory, while containing the essence of all feminisms, proved unactionable: feminism could not outlaw women’s stubborn...

...Iain Morland In debates about the medical management of intersex, also known as “disorders of sex development,” it is often assumed that morally good treatment can make patients, families, and doctors feel comfortable and, conversely, that morally bad treatment generates feelings of discomfort...

...—if state punishment is not entirely pegged to bad character, or if it is but checked by democratic rights—the sex criminal may yet be perceived as a toxic excess, an ineliminable source of danger and cause of terrible injury...

... for the possibility of repentance (Flaherty). When a woman described a date with comedian Aziz Ansari as sexual assault, some feminists affirmed her, and others termed it “bad sex” (Weiss). These conflicts demonstrate that a “reasonable woman” standard, as Jodi Dean has argued, can be just as contentious...

... is to be compromised, or entirely given over to the terms of the ruling class. The more women feel good about sex, the more complicit they are in sexual hierarchies. According to MacKinnon, femininity is pure masochism, and that is bad for women. The social and the sexual are so seamlessly sutured that women simply...

... . Paris : Cahiers du cinema , 2004 . Bad Education . Almodóvar Pedro Dir. . Warner Sogefilms , 2004 . Berlant Lauren Edelman Lee . Sex, or the Unbearable . Durham : Duke UP , 2014 . de Man Paul . Aesthetic Ideology . Ed. Warminski Andrzej . Minneapolis : U...

... at the core of the law and at the core of the contemporary movement. Consider, from MacKinnon and #MeToo perspectives, comedian Louis C. K., who is on the bad man list primarily for masturbating in front of other women comedians and associates. News reports of his alleged misconduct, if we lived in a sex...

... politics of the campus toggles between warnings that the campus is a hunting ground populated by sexual predators, as depicted in Kirby Dick’s The Hunting Ground , and laments that the campus is overrun by hysterics who confuse bad sex and rape and are happy to sacrifice academic freedom to the altar...

... homosexuality—would mean for thinking sexual justice in the #MeToo moment. Intergenerational sexuality, gay and straight, is indicative of the sheer pervasiveness and normalcy of the entanglement of sex and power across Euro-North America, an entanglement that feminists invested in sexual justice must address...

.... Melancholy is, in other words, radiance that’s either too fast or too slow: a bad vibe. robin james is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is completing a manuscript titled “Resilience and Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, and Neoliberalism” (Zero...

..., perversity, and violence—in short, rapists. The prevalence of this line of thinking has fueled current sex panics about the foreign other, evident in President Trump’s references to “bad hombres,” who are entering the country purportedly to rape white women, a discourse that harkens back to the early...

... explains, she had picked up the term queer from an earlier conference in which she had participated the previous year, the How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video conference organized by the Bad Object-Choices collective at Anthology Film Archives in New York in late 1989 (xviin2). 4 In the introduction...

... of psychosocial experience are only ever as radical as their metapsychological foundations. As such, while Berlant’s defense of people’s bad attachments may seem compassionate compared to intellectuals who “shit” on dreams, a deeper analysis of cruel optimism’s metapsychology reveals that this compassion...

... does not want it ” ( Les problèmes 165; my emphasis). The importance of this formulation to my understanding of what an asexual analytic might offer will come clear in my reading of Venus and Adonis . 6 I take inspiration from Edelman’s paradoxical reading of sex as ab-sense in Bad Education...

... with the many theorists who, in different ways, have argued that race and sex (as distinct from racism and sex bias) do not exist. By contrast, Beauvoir often attributed a form of bad faith to those who would say that old age does not exist...

... Smith’s essay, “How HIV Ruined My Sex Life. Then I Met My Match” (2021), published at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Smith renarrates a scene of redress that transformed their affective and social relations to sex as a Black, queer, nonbinary person with HIV. Through self-narration, Smith revises...

...Teresa de Lauretis Copyright © 1991 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1991 Works Cited Bearchell Chris . “ Why I am a gay liberationist: thoughts on sex, freedom, the family and the state .” Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation...

... no problem with this, because I believe that having sex all the time is bad. It reduces a woman. Once a week, once every two weeks is okay. I am convinced 126...

... appears regularly in manuscript sources and historical accounts, no such paradigm exists for the bad mistress” (19). Against these overtures, Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection has forwarded an uncompromising critique, finding that history’s “representation of the performative has been inscribed...