... the hubris of the queer theorists, we know how to take more differences into account, and thus we become cast—or do we cast ourselves?—in a new imperial discourse. NEW DIRECTIONS IN MULTIETHNIC, RACIAL, AND GLOBAL QUEER STUDIES 133 From Republic to Empire: The Loss of Gay...

... of the disease (Aiken). Given the salience of the sauna controversy and the seriousness of the implications of imposing restrictions on consensual sexual activity among consenting adults, it is disturbing that more than a decade into the epidemic there has still been almost no empirical research...

...Rachel Lee In the 2003 concert Cho Revolution , Korean American stand-up comedian Margaret Cho mounts a critique of US empire that focuses on the Asian sex worker as logistical support for the military troops of commodity capitalism. Combining a science and technology studies approach...

...Steven Epstein The influence and staying power of Gayle Rubin's essay “Thinking Sex” reflect her success in taking the insights of empirical studies of sexuality—particularly, historically informed ethnography—and drawing out their intellectual and political implications so as to permit...

... of postcolonial subjects in Cape Town and Hong Kong. In a moment of intensified counterterrorism, necropolitical nationalism, and resurgent yet covert forms of empire, both works have much to say about how the lives of sexual minorities are simultaneously affected by and resist Western imperialism. Thus they also...

...Erin Calhoun Davis Drawing on Butler's theory of gender performativity, which conceptualizes the discursive production of the gendered subject and the corresponding “constitutive instabilities” of such reiterative practices, I provide an empirical sociological examination of how individuals...

...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...

..., as opposed to what queer asylum seekers are expected to produce to become subjects of and legible to empire. The next iteration of the performance is a refusal of legibility and empathy for a life narrative she, in some ways, lived, but simultaneously did not identify with. This article argues...

... approaches the often casual and commercialized orientalism of that era’s US culture to assemble a suggestive and coherently focused set of materials that critically express the immanence of empire — of what Ngô calls “empire at home” (3) — in ways that illuminate cultural politics both particular...

...Neville Hoad Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique , Sa'ed Atshan , Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , xxii + 274 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 In five chapters, Sa'ed Atshan explores the question of queer Palestinian identities in complicated...

..., and other activities necessary to reproduce individuals and empires. 3 When performed outside the white nuclear family, these typically feminized domestic labors offer an often overlooked ground for the historical construction of normative and deviant sexual identities in the early twentieth century...

...Bethany Schneider Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press , 2007 . xxix + 277 pp . Duke University Press 2008 Bethany Schneider is associate professor of English at Bryn Mawr College...

...- fers benefits of ethnography for queer studies. These include entering situations where surprise can complicate expectations; facilitating the study of “everyday life with all of its complexities, specificities, and inequalities” (15); and form- ing theory from empirical...

...- fers benefits of ethnography for queer studies. These include entering situations where surprise can complicate expectations; facilitating the study of “everyday life with all of its complexities, specificities, and inequalities” (15); and form- ing theory from empirical...

...- fers benefits of ethnography for queer studies. These include entering situations where surprise can complicate expectations; facilitating the study of “everyday life with all of its complexities, specificities, and inequalities” (15); and form- ing theory from empirical...

...- fers benefits of ethnography for queer studies. These include entering situations where surprise can complicate expectations; facilitating the study of “everyday life with all of its complexities, specificities, and inequalities” (15); and form- ing theory from empirical...

... are synthesized within the context of US–Philippine administration of Filipino Moros. After the transfer of political governance from the United States to the Philippine government, the North American settler empire is perpetuated by the Philippine government's settler-colonial apparatus and their continued...

... and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century . Seattle : University of Washington Press . Sinha Mrinalini . 2006 . Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Books in Brief FECUNDITY, FERTILITY CONTROL, AND FEMINIST “ALLIANCES...

... of and participants in the continuous project of Western empire. Rather than telling stories of queer history, Bad Gays tells stories of queers in history—sometimes for the better, but as one anticipates from the title, mostly for the worse. Primarily aimed toward a general audience, Bad Gays explores its...

... the essential historical conditions under which new ideas about sex, sexuality, and the body as objects of empirical knowledge would emerge in China. Meticulously researched and drawing on an impressive range of sources across medical science, the popular press, and personal biographies, the book shows how...