...Elizabeth Lundberg This essay examines restrictions on and opportunities for agency in Fledgling , Octavia Butler's 2005 science fiction vampire novel. Reading agency through three relational modes—belonging, trauma, and consensual nonconsent—it argues that Fledgling helps us critically consider...

...Laurie Shannon Duke University Press 2004 POETIC COMPANIES Musters of Agency in George Gascoigne’s “Friendly Verse” Laurie Shannon Tam marti quam mercurio. George Gascoigne (c. 1537–77) was a self-named prodigal and the most suc- cessful alleged failure in Elizabethan letters. He...

... AGENCY AND SELF-­VOLITION IN BLACK FEMINIST PERFORMANCE ART Jayna Brown Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance Uri McMillan New York: New York University Press, 2015. ix + 283 pp. Agency is a particularly ambiguous...

... scholarship in feminist new materialism as well as its critics, this essay considers the implications of these imaginings. On the one hand, the modes of agency that Case’s songs invoke frequently entail a circumvention or suppression of specific political interests, making them susceptible to antifeminist...

..., surrendering agency, and practicing powerlessness—may open up an anti-ableism, antiviolence queer ethics of proximity. An ethical positioning of proximity to humanness through unbecoming human disengages from any kind of ability-based determination of a being's legitimacy and from the appraisal of differences...

... more forcefully in this world, thereby expanding their agency and capacity for flourishing in an impoverished city; second, despite queer theory's investment in secular modes of critique and analysis, the realm of the religious and the sacred provides many queers of color with a resource for developing...

... and femme agency remains consistent. Yet the ways in which time, place, gender, and race meet are not straightforward. Through the various iterations of the calendar, we can see that these contemporary performances of femme-ness are part of a particular affective attachment to the 1950s. This essay...

..., the group's insistence on linking queer and feminist issues with the struggle against the occupation, together with its emphasis on bodily practices and utterances, is shown to have far-reaching implications for the very understanding of political agency. Duke University Press 2010 Performative Politics...

... relationality that mitigates projective affects and offers a set of feelings more capacious than paranoia and more welcoming to queer possibilities for mutual nourishment, agency, and empathy. Sedgwick's ethics of intersubjectivity offers one way to expand queer theory's affective modalities to include...

...Susan McHugh Nonhuman nonheteronormativity presents a profound challenge not just to identity forms but more importantly to disciplinary habits of thinking of human subjectivity as the default form of social agency. To elaborate this point, this essay surveys how some recent books, including...

... deploys public ethnography, social history, and political-institutional discourse analysis. Providing avenues for thinking differently about both security politics and dissidence, this study offers three theory tools: emancipatory inhiraf and labor agency, child sovereignties and ‘Eid temporalities...

..., and the agency of human performers, this essay interrogates camp’s powerful attachments to humorlessness, sincerity, and nonhuman or dehumanized objects. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 feminism camp psychiatric disability References Ahmed Sara . 2010 . The Promise...

...Stephanie Anne Shelton This article considers the important interdisciplinary contributions of Karen Barad’s “Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings” (2015). Barad adopted Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a metaphor to examine concepts of agency, empowerment...

..., thereby instantiating the radical claims of those fields via a posthumanist perspective unbound by conventional claims to identity, agency, and alterity. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Queer studies human/animal studies the couple the pet posthumanism Gilles Deleuze and Félix...

...- gies of black female agency in A Taste for Brown Sugar. Against narratives that would position pornography as degrading or antifeminist, Miller-­Young shows us women who capitalize on the desire for black female bodies in order to pursue their own goals. In addition...

..., corporeality, and even the human. Each term becomes unstable, distributed, lively. All are thereafter best modified by prefixing a trans-­ or inter-­ to indicate that knowing, affect, erotic desire, agency, and embodiment promiscu- ously unfold across bodies and things, within strange medial spaces...

...Lisa Diedrich Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency . Gill Michael . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . xvii + 255 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 References Foucault Michel . [1976] 1978 . An Introduction. Vol. 1...

...: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES Another problem with assessing medical responses to transsexualism solely on the basis of suspicions about the professional use of power is that such an approach neglects power and agency residing in other locations—most notably...

...), for example, dismisses fat and eating as matters that exercise only a “lateral” or weak form of agency that is “not a pro- jection toward a future,” a figuration to which the present article returns. A pre- liminary question, however: isn’t “eating right” generally held aloft...