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...Marlon B. Ross Black Gay Man: Essays Robert Reid-Pharr New York: New York University Press , 2001 . xviii + 195 pp . Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Phillip Brian Harper New York: New York University Press , 1999 . xvii + 189 pp . Duke...

... 2004 Announcements Essays Sought for a Special Issue of GLQ on Queer Arts GLQ is currently soliciting essays for a special issue on queer arts, to be guest- edited by David Román and Richard Meyer. The editors encourage new and innovative work on any aspect of the visual...

... The essays gathered here were presented at “Queer Publicity,” a panel organized in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of the New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (the New Festival) in May 1998. The panel was held at New York University under the auspices of the Queer Faculty Group conference...

...Lynne Huffer This essay articulates a queer feminist ethics of eros by rereading Luce Irigaray through a Foucauldian lens. After an inquiry into Irigaray's absence from queer theory, the essay makes a case for Irigaray as a resource for queer thinking by exploring the philosophical...

...Jayna Brown Taking suggestion from the case of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells, this essay is profoundly interested in the possibilities for new, and alternative, forms of life and being. What forms of sociality and the communal are available for us if we estrange ourselves from the life of our...

...Lauren Jae Gutterman; Martin F. Manalansan, IV; Stephen Vider This essay serves as the introduction to a special issue of GLQ , “Queering the Domestic.” The essay both summarizes the interventions of the essays in this special issue and introduces readers to the concept of queer domesticity...

...Natalie Prizel This essay traces a lesbian literary history from the works of Charles Dickens and Algernon Charles Swinburne through the 1950s and 1960s. In discussing the former’s Bleak House (1853) and the latter’s 1866 volume Poems and Ballads , the essay demonstrates the emergence...

...Bobby Benedicto Drawing on the writings of Georges Bataille and Leo Bersani, this essay reexamines the long-held association of homosexuality with a radical erotics of death from the vantage of queer of color critique. While notions of suicidal ecstasy, self-shattering, and masochistic jouissance...

... what aspects of sexual politics in South Africa Rubin's concept can illuminate, both for the moment in which the essay was written and for the present. While the worlds Rubin's essay can describe have shifted, the essay's analytic power holds. Duke University Press 2010 Re: Thinking Sex from...

...Whitney Davis The essay presents a model of “queer family romance” (adapted from Freud's concept of family romance) in historical practices of collecting visual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though queer collections of visual culture and queer family romance are independent...

...Michael Moon Lesbian and gay studies was still in its academic infancy when Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick wrote her long-unpublished essay on James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim” (1976). Sedgwick's essay focuses on what she sees as the poem's fascinated concern with the administration...

...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...

...Margot Weiss This essay explores methodological dilemmas in queer anthropology by reviewing three recent queer ethnographies: Mary Gray's Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America ; Mark Padilla's Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS...

... beach, Les Salines. This essay seeks to cross temporal, scalar, and disciplinary boundaries while revisiting tropes of queer invisibility that mark representations of same-sex desire in the Caribbean. Cycling from the world described in the 1901 erotic novel Une nuit d'orgie à Saint-Pierre, Martinique...

...William F. Schroeder This essay argues for an affective methodology based on an attention to how visceral connections to film help queer people from the People's Republic of China interpret their subjectivity. The essay follows a theory of affect that focuses not only on emotion but also...

...Scarlet Bowen Responding to the recent turn in queer theory toward the aesthetic and away from the antisocial theory of sex, this essay argues for recuperating queer sexual formalism as a basis for ethical relationality and communality. The essay focuses on a group of seventeenth-century mock-love...

...Emily Skidmore To understand the role that scale and region have played in queer history, this essay tracks the narratives produced about the life of Ralph Kerwineo — a biologically female, mixed-race Milwaukee resident who was arrested in 1914 after living as a male for over eight years...

...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...

...Neel Ahuja This essay explores representations of parasitism and crisis in queer theory and public climate discourse in order to situate queer critiques of reproduction in the context of neoliberalism's ongoing carbon-driven extinctions. Focusing on racialized climate research that predicts...