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... of unmarked heterosexuality onto both the objects of developmentalist interventions and onto some of the major institutions that deploy them. The collection is, as a result, not a critique of developmentalism itself, serving instead as an exercise in thinking through how development...

... A summary, standard view of American painting after 1945 might describe its development in close relation to a modernist discourse that emphasized pure visu- ality, so that the most highly valued work tended to be abstract. The central artist would be Jackson Pollock, while the chief exception would...

... context to describe “congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical”; instead the preferred term henceforth would be disorders of sex development (DSDs). The announcement met with significant controversy, which I here examine in terms of the historical...

...Ava L.J. Kim This essay analyzes Lucía Puenzo's 2007 film, XXY , to articulate a collaborative process of gender-ambiguous becoming, what the author ultimately calls a theory of child's play. Building on María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo's theorization of developmentalism and an extended engagement...

... of displacing low-income and racialized people through deregulation of housing policy and unimpeded capitalist “development” of neighborhoods. Through the prism of corrective development, we can witness disposability politics as the convergence of hyper-carceralism, police killings, and social exclusion...

... a community of gay intellectuals and authors intent on using their own mainstream success to make evident to all the creativity and value of contemporary gay life. By decade's end, this gay literary elite had developed ideas about gay cultural politics and the proper relationship between activism...

... pornographies, I develop the term black anality to describe how black pleasures are represented as peculiarly and particularly oriented toward the anus, and thus as peculiarly and particularly attached to anal ideologies . In doing so, I depart from black feminist scholarship, which has long examined...

... in particular the relationship of academic feminism and intersex advocacy; proof of and reasons for success in intersex medical advocacy; and intersex identity politics, especially with regard to the nature-nurture debate and terminology ( intersex versus hermaphroditism versus disorders of sex development...

... and instead developed notions of “good” and “bad” practices, positioning surrogacy in California as ethically regulated, while surrogacy in India was framed as fraught with ethical issues and exploitative. The article concludes that the two cases point to how specific formations of gay surrogacy work...

..., and the victories of feminism seem short-lived. The major developments of the past two decades that have transformed our understanding of medieval culture and society have been the growth of the history of sexuality as a (sub)discipline in its own right and the impact of queer theory on literary criticism...

... publications on the LGBT movement, I argue that within the LGBT movement there is a tension between queer radicalism and professionalism (which is often conflated with homonormativity and assimilation.) As the national LGBT movement grew, it inevitably developed professional, formal organizations. Although...

...Louis Esme Cruz; Qwo-Li Driskill In the formative years of the developing cultural relations between the Mi'kmaq of the Maritime Provinces of Canada and European Judeo-Christian missionaries, Father Chrestien Le Clercq systematized Mi'kmaq written language in order to convert the Original People...

..., Laval-Jeantet received a series of transfusions of blood plasma drawn from the body of a horse. This essay considers the intensively physical dimensions of Art Orienté Objet's transpecies performance by reading it in relation to the concept of affective athleticism as it is developed in Gilles Deleuze's...

.... Bates, Bentler, and Thompson, “Measurement of Deviant Gender Development,” 593. 65. John E. Bates and P. M. Bentler, “Play Activities of Normal and Effeminate Boys,” Developmental Psychology 9, no. 1 (1973): 20 – 27. 66. Bates and Bentler, “Play Activities,” 20...

... of the gay child in Utah and California, it develops a claim that has yet to be vindicated—that the US Constitution protects every child's right to be queer. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 children marriage law litigation rights References American Academy of Pediatrics . 2008...

... of growth that mark the accelerated development of an “incredible” or “shining” India. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 HIV/AIDS queer politics in India globalization References Baxi Upendra . 2002 . “The (Im)Possibility of Constitutional Justice: Seismographic Notes...

...Susan Stryker This article is a personal testimonial to Gayle Rubin, delivered as an introduction to her keynote address at the 2009 “Rethinking Sex” conference convened in her honor at the University of Pennsylvania. It makes a few brief remarks on Rubin's contribution to the development...

... between these two trajectories, we argue, has informed queer theory from its inception. We develop the concept of queer bondsto describe relations radically in excess of humanist and neoliberal accounts of the individual, suggesting queer theory has always been a theory of queer bonds. If sex...

... is shaped by the complex and changing relation between her identity as a poet and her developing profession as a literary critic. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Figure 1. North...

... Asian diaspora in Gopinath's study. As sexuality travels in the global system, we witness its transformation into many other things: a discourse of development; a dialectic of Enlightenment; an emblem of democracy, progress, and liberation; a tale of racial, religious, or cultural barbarism; an index...