...: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800 . London: Longman, 1981 . THE DISCIPLINE PROBLEM __ ~ ~ QUEER THEORY MEETS LESBIAN AND 6AY HISTORY Lisa Duggan In1991, I was interviewed along with three other historians of sexuality by a history department at a small...

..., more transformative disciplining made possible by the legal structure of the family itself (and helped along by a good dose of fear that the state would take away lesbians’ children). To ensure absolute rights to one's child, more well-resourced lesbian mothers traded in community sperm runners...

...Alexandra Juhasz; Ming-Yuen S. Ma Six graduate students working within media studies reflect upon their experiences and studies evidencing a shared attention to the “in-betweens” of identity formation, graduate school, disciplines, and professional practices. All seek and speak with a queer voice...

... studies and the desire to prevent that field from settling into an academic discipline, to keep it perpetually off-balance, to preserve its relation to queer sex, and to foster the kinds of diversity that escape most standard definitions of diversity. Those ideals and values remain as important now...

...Christina B. Hanhardt Abstract At the start of the 1990s the New York chapter of the activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was essential to the continuation of needle exchanges, which provide clean syringes to injection drug users without disapprobation or discipline and have been...

... across a range of disciplines. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 queer theory methodology spacetimemattering interdisciplinary References Ahuja Neel . 2015 . “ Intimate Atmospheres: Queer Theory in a Time of Extinctions .” GLQ 21 , nos. 2 – 3 : 365 – 85...

...Rachel Corbman This article responds to Lisa Duggan’s “The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay Studies” (1995), which was published in an early issue of GLQ . In arguing queer theory’s disinterest in empirical research in the 1990s, Duggan’s article seems to anticipate Laura Doan...

... with potential illegalization. These dynamics raise important questions about citizenship, surveillance, discipline, and normalization that merit consideration by those struggling for recognition of same-sex couples within immigration law. They also enable us to further reconceptualize the legal/illegal...

... are far from clear. Any changes will, however, surely be facilitated by ongoing communication and collaboration across the various perspectives and disciplines represented here. Duke University Press 2009 Intersex Practice, Theory, and Activism A Roundtable Discussion Sarah M. Creighton, Julie...

..., 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...

... such as Trinidad and Tobago forces us to question how and why compulsory homophobia is deployed as a form of moral discipline that is made to seem compatible with postcolonial modernity. This article explores the “problem space” of state-sanctioned homophobia as a regulative and generative (not simply repressive...

...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...

...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...

...- tives, concepts, and methodological tools of political science; and the “queer- ing” of a social science discipline that has been constitutive of the very power relations LGBT politics challenges. LGBT politics has, with varying degrees of success, helped to change those relations-in part...

... STUDIES than men — were to become the guardians of republican virtue. By presenting sexual discipline as a particularly important achievement for inhabitants of the early republic, elites reconciled the revolutionary values of self-­rule with gender ideology...

... the “pre-­Stonewall” period, I situate Miracle’s anachronisms within and against the temporal disciplines of the modern penitentiary and of early twentieth-­century criminological discourses. Miracle’s cultural work on anachronism is necessitated, first, by the criminological...

... relations with positivist cousin-disciplines: LGBT studies and religious studies, respectively. Studies means roughly the opposite in the two cases. In LGBT studies, the word has signaled an inclusive, affirmative discourse conducted chiefly by insiders, by those who...

... comprehension requires a certain knowledge base and even translation skills is hardly confined to the humanities. I’m thinking of a colleague in sociology, Suzanne Vaughan, who claimed she never realized how many newly minted words existed in her discipline until she asked someone to sign for a deaf...

... norms makes their disruption all the more certain. For this forum, we asked five scholars from across various disciplines, subfields, and stages of their careers, “How does the space of home figure in your work? How does thinking about the queering of domesticity help us to understand home better...

... to be discipline specific and is shifting away from the commitments of a single field. Although this dossier is certainly interested in anchoring in field-specific concerns, our hope is that we can use them in ways that broaden their appeal to work across fields. Further, this dossier is meant to expand beyond...