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> GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 1. “Prostitute, Lonya Vavionsha,” from the Book of Traffickers Operating in Cuba . United Nations Archives, Geneva, n.d. https://libraryresources.unog.ch/ld.php?content_id=31670105 .
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 521–527.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Stephen Guy-Bray The three books under review can be classified as queer theory on Renaissance subjects: Jonathan Goldberg's Seeds of Things , Holly Dugan's Ephemeral History of Perfume , and Will Stockton's Playing Dirty . The three books are very different: Goldberg's book considers...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 389–403.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Will Stockton This essay reviews three recent books on perversion —a term that psychology has replaced with the ostensibly less-pathologizing term paraphilia , but which remains operative in popular discourse. Besides exploring the reasons for and limitations of this replacement, this essay...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (2-3): 387–405.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Robert G. Diaz This essay reviews three books that center on the globalized city as a key site for unpacking disparate queer cultures. Two of the books discussed make an explicit effort to deterritorialize queer historiography outside the global North. They focus on the everyday experiences...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (2): 249–259.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Steven Epstein Three excellent recent books attest to how much remains to be understood about the AIDS epidemic, and even about its most well-studied years, the 1980s and 1990s. While varying by discipline and approach, these books converge around a common set of preoccupations: the potency...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 353–378.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Howard Chiang Four recent books attest to how much remains to be understood about queer Chinese cultures, both historically and in the contemporary period, especially in relation to their wider global contexts. While varying by discipline and approach, these books converge around a common set...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 545–558.
Published: 01 October 2013
... be imagined as, queer stuff. In contrast to the recent insistence on queer antirelationality and anticommunal modes of unbelonging, these books insist on the performative and political dimensions of critical futurity. Furthermore, I show how even as the preoccupation with a certain kind of idealism (what...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (3): 431–455.
Published: 01 June 2019
... and summarizing the book’s ideas rather than analyzing its language. Countering this tendency, this essay reexamines No Future and the debates surrounding it in two ways: first, it resituates Edelman’s contributions to queer theory in relation to deconstructive theories of rhetoric, irony, and linguistic...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 297–307.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Erin Runions This essay reviews four books on the role of religion in shaping state policy, political rhetoric, and activism for and against same-sex rights in the United States. These books are instructive in thinking through relations between race and religion, sexuality and race, religion...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 January 2011
... (or, more broadly, a politics of embodiment), it reads “Thinking Sex” alongside another 1984 text, Deborah A. Stone's book The Disabled State , arguing that Stone's text, like Rubin's, is concerned with how capitalism sorts bodies and behaviors into dominant and subordinated categories. The Disabled State...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 193–204.
Published: 01 January 2011
...David L. Eng This essay reviews two books, M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred and Gayatri Gopinath's Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures , both of which focus on the intersections of queer...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 603–618.
Published: 01 October 2011
... two walls of books, attached to each other and to a giant crochet brain overhead by a crochet rope that links their crotches to the brain. Mitchell recreated a version of the Lesbian Herstory Archives reading room in Brooklyn by covering the walls of the gallery with trompe l'oeil wallpaper made from...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (1): 111–123.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Elias Walker Vitulli This essay reviews three recently published books that stand at the intersection of queer/trans studies and critical prison studies. These books show the multiple and complex ways that queerness pervades the US prison system and the devastating effects of criminalization...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 87–106.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Grace Kyungwon Hong Through readings of Cherríe Moraga's book of poetry and prose The Last Generation and memoir Waiting in the Wings , this essay argues that Moraga's refusal to ascribe to any notion of ideological or political purity—whether normative or queer—regarding reproductive sexuality...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Aaron Lecklider This review essay places several recent works on homosexuality and the Left within a broader history of scholarly engagement with queer radicalism. Books by Daniel Hurewitz, Terence Kissack, Gary Holcomb, and Kevin Floyd together represent a grappling with defining queer leftist...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 33–38.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Heather Love This essay reflects on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s citation of Erving Goffman’s 1963 book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity in her essay “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel ” (1993). I track Sedgwick’s attempt to wrest queer studies away from...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (2): 183–214.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Herstory Archives (LHA). HI has also had multiple incarnations as a staged reading/live performance, audio installation, collective art project, art exhibition, and book, and its relay across media participates in a fascination with the archive that has pervaded LGBTQ culture, resulting in a proliferation...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (1): 153–169.
Published: 01 January 2009
...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...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 243–263.
Published: 01 June 2011
...) or identity disorders. Queer theory needs to reconsider sexuality in the Freudian sense of polymorphous-perverse, in its ungovernable, compulsive, and unconscious dimensions. Third, “the antisocial thesis” and the relation of queer theory to queer politics are discussed with regard to Lee Edelman's book...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 97–105.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Joanne Meyerowitz This article puts Gayle Rubin's 1984 article “Thinking Sex” in dialogue with Earl Lind's 1918 book Autobiography of an Androgyne . Rooted in different historical moments, the two works address distinct debates about the nature, politics, and ethics of sexual and gender variance...
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