..., “Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexual- ity,” Representations 63 (1998): 109. George E. Haggerty is professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. BOOKS IN BRIEF 151 THE FEAR OF WRITING BADLY...

... and 30 . Warner Michael . 1991 . “Fear of a Queer Planet.” Social Text , no. 29 : 3 – 17 . Wohlleben Peter . 2016 . The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World . Vancouver, BC : Greystone Books . Wyndham John . 1951...

...Matt Bell Duke University Press 2006 “YOUR WORST FEARS MADE FLESH” The Manchurian Candidate’s Paranoid Delusion and Gay Liberation Matt Bell We are the extrusions of your unconscious mind — your worst fears made flesh. — Martha Shelley, “Gay Is Good” Before gay liberation...

... speaks to how condoms have been a way to manage communal fears about sexual excess in the era of AIDS, providing not only a latex barrier but also symbolic reassurance that gay sex might in some way be made “safe.” Another mode of attending to what is risky and exciting about sexual and scientific...

..., this article argues that there is a pattern in host cities of such events in which neoliberal agents, state forces, and nongovernmental organizations use discourses of feminism and human rights—especially unfounded fears about a link between sex trafficking and sports—to enact such changes regardless...

..., gossip, pedagogy, love, fear, and neglect. The thematics of liquids, she suggests, includes the thematics of fixation but does not synthesize it. “It spaces, distributes, circulates it.” There is, she says, a formal impartiality to the distribution throughout this long poem of its many disparate elements...

... Islam and a progressively more tolerant West. This dynamic of identification and differentiation was powerfully articulated through expressions of love, fear, and disgust. Furthermore, the Internet, which facilitated the rapid circulation of images of, stories about, and reactions to the case, also...

... appropriation through patron‐client networks at a time of heightened awareness of corruption, exploitation, and fears of foreign meddling in the politics and economics of African postcolonies. The article makes the case that the homosexual man becomes a more convincing signifier of contemporary social anxiety...

...Kathryn Bond Stockton Forging new concepts—kid Orientalism, reverse pedophilia, and manifest latency—this essay speculates on something that's been surfacing in Anglo-American public culture over the last ten years or so. A future the public fears is coming—child sexuality, evidenced by sexting...

... channeled through NGOs. For LGBTI-identified persons in the NGO’s orbit, meanwhile, fake gays—infiltrating inauthentic gays—breed fear and resentment amid circuits of scarce resource distribution and homophobia. This mythologized figure, rooted in racialized arbitrations of fake or real, sincere or cunning...

... but still-fraught figures for the self such as the “martyr,” the “saint,” or the “heretic.” Queer astrology unquestionably breaks the fearful mold beheld by critics like Aby Warburg and Theodor Adorno. But is it political? And if it is, how so? What are its potentials? How do we construe a queer...

... of safety and power as an image maker and my fear and vulnerability as the seen object. VIII It was initially frightening for me to put myself on display as a sexual object. My fear was not simply that of being physically exposed and potentially rejected, ridiculed, misperceived, or found lacking...

.... Eli Cohen, 1986), Lookout (dir. Dina Zvi-Riklis, 1990), and Day after Day (dir. Amos Gitai, 1998). In the Israeli social psyche, miscegenation gives rise to fears of racial, sex- ual, moral, physiological, and national decay and degeneracy, because it poses a threat to Jewish “purity...

... to take physical risks—like climbing a twenty-foot hurricane fence to get spaldeens out of it so we could play stickball. I learned to ignore fear and do it anyway. I got high off the comedown after an especially dan- gerous move or adventure. I could ask my body to do it, whatever it was, and my body...

... disposability must be rethought in relation to today’s carbon-­fueled exterminations of peoples, species, and entire ways of life. In this essay I explore relations between reproduction and extinction through a specific environmental crisis: fears of mosquito-­borne diseases in a warming...

... , 9 : 22 , July 22 . youtube.com/watch?v=ga5Bo4YdgH4 . Kimmel Michael S. [1997] 2009 . “ Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity .” In Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The New Basics: An Anthology , compiled by Ferber Abby L...

... negative outcomes and harm than . . . ” (xxxi, 101, 117, emphases added). But just how often? The rhetorical maneuver scares us into agreement, an irony for a book chronicling the political damage of fear. Yet I see no reason why positions-of-authority laws cannot be squared with a conception of power...

... . “Like Father, Like Son: Homosexuality, Parenthood, and the Gender of Homophobia.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 20 , no. 2 : 257 – 355 . ———. 2013a . “No Promo Hetero: Children's Right to Be Queer.” Cardozo Law Review 35 : 425 – 510 . ———. 2013b . “Fear of the Queer Child...

.... Affective conventions of sexuality — in particular, sexual shame, stigma, fear, disgust — enforce and reinforce this regulatory system and are there- fore political. In its wake, the panic of moral panics legitimizes enhanced state power through fostering the illusion of a singular public mobilized...

... saw the allegorical and technocratic construction of the ticking “population bomb” that raised the specter of demographic doom, while also erasing women’s embodied experiences from the management of abstract populations. The rising tide of fear surrounding...