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...H. N. Lukes Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism . Menon Madhavi . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . ix + 145 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 BOOKS IN BRIEF 157 WANDERLUST Queer...

...Masha Raskolnikov Nelly Richard. Translated by Silvia R. Tandeciarz and Alice A. Nelson Durham: Duke University Press , 2004 . xiii + 94 pp . Duke University Press 2005 Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference(s) Masha Raskolnikov is assistant professor of English...

...Tim R. Johnston In this essay I argue that Luce Irigaray's description of sexual difference as “difference itself” is based on a pervasive cissexism that necessitates critical attention. I begin by outlining how placing sexual difference in the temporality of the future anterior saves Irigaray from...

...Todd R. Ramlow Duke University Press 2003 BAD BOYS Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth “Deviance” Todd R. Ramlow As in common homophobic discourse, the object of devaluation and intolerance in discourses of disability is seemingly erased in the phobic utterance...

... University Press . Chuh Kandice . 2003 . Imagine Otherwise . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Chuh Kandice . 2019 . The Difference Aesthetics Makes . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Chuh Kandice . 2021 . “ It's Not about Anything .” In Saturation: Race, Art...

...Venetia Kantsa Duke University Press 2002 “CERTAIN PLACES HAVE DIFFERENT ENERGY” Spatial Transformations in Eresos, Lesvos Venetia Kantsa The village of Eresos is located in the western part of the island of Lesvos, about ninety kilometers from Mytilini, the capital, and has...

...Antonia Chao Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography . Engebretsen Elisabeth L. . New York : Routledge , 2014 . xix + 194 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Books in Brief DIFFERENT NORMATIVITIES Beijing Lesbians’ Longing and Self-­Governance Antonia Chao...

... gender theory by demonstrating that Hong Kong’s different, hybrid ideas about gender call for more heterogeneous, comparative, context-­specific theories that account for the forma- tive influence of not one but two body schemas, Western biomedicine and Chi- nese cosmology. Even within...

...Alice Jardine Duke University Press 2007 Thinking Wittig’s Differences “Or, Failing That, Invent” Alice Jardine The loss of Monique Wittig’s live voice and future texts in January 2003 made me deeply sad, especially so for those closest to her, who loved her. My own sad- ness has...

...Uri McMillan This review essay considers a new electrifying strand of queer of color critique situated in the musky interstices of pleasure, abjection, and sex. These authors zero in on difference, encountered in the realm of sex, as an unexplored analytic mode to theorize power, sensation...

... with Pride puts forth a model of longevity that is personally and collectively grounded in black sexual difference and queer of color resistant social practices that trouble public health life expectancy discourses. Drawing on queer of color critique, black sexuality studies, and visual cultural studies...

...Leah DeVun This essay focuses on “hermaphrodites” to examine how ideas about sexual difference shaped the human-nonhuman distinction in medieval Europe. When constructing a definition of the human, medieval authors repeatedly pointed to a particular kind of sexual difference as a key indicator...

... and the distributional price of exceeding the Law in settler normativities. It pivots on the claim that the general availability of intensified potential, like the general availability of enjoyment, doesn't negate the specific social (dis)orderings that differentiate and then treat different bodies differently. It asks...

... at least post-Tridentine confession to the present. In following his example, such distinguished and otherwise like-minded thinkers as Arnold Davidson and David Halperin differ remarkably in preferring one approach (whether conceptual rupture or genealogy) to the other. Yet, despite their internal...

...Stephanie Clare This essay considers a form of relation that is neither sameness nor difference but correspondence. It does so by analyzing the palindromes in two films, John Greyson's Fig Trees and Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know . Within a palindrome, letters here...

... have played a central role in the theorization of homosexuality’s transgressive potential, accounts that center homosexuality’s desubjectivizing negativity have often been charged with a failure to attend to questions of racial difference and the limits they pose for an erotics and ethics grounded...

... space by two trans thinkers: Marlene Wayar, an Argentine social psychologist and activist, and Talia Mae Bettcher, a Canadian philosopher and activist based in Los Angeles. Pichon-Rivière argues that a core difference between their approaches stems from different geopolitical and disciplinary regimes...