...Katie Hindmarch-Watson Duke University Press 2007 Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London Katie Hindmarch-Watson On November 13, 1886, twenty-one-year-old Lois Schwich was sentenced to eight months’ hard labor for...

... who wear female clothing, assume feminine names, and, ideally, renounce sexual desire and prac- tice by undergoing a sacrificial emasculation — that is, excision of the penis and testicles — dedicated to the Hindu goddess Bedhraj Mata. In practice, their lives and...

...Tze-lan D. Sang The University of Chicago 2002 AT THE JUNCTURE OF CENSURE AND MASS VOYEURISM Narratives of Female Homoerotic Desire in Post-Mao China Tze-lan D. Sang In the years immediately following Mao Zedong’s death, fiction writers in the People’s Republic of China consistently...

...Stacy Wolf Duke University Press 2006 “We’ll Always Be Bosom Buddies” Female Duets and the Queering of Broadway Musical Theater Stacy Wolf In the middle of the second act of Mame (1966), the title character and her best friend, Vera, sing a hilarious duet of competition and...

...Annamarie Jagose Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 REMEMBERING MISS WADE Little Dorrit and the Historicizing of Female Perversity Annamarie Jagose Some years ago when I was writing my doctoral thesis—or rather, when I was arrested in the process of that writing, stuck on...

...Lillian Faderman Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 ACTING “WOMAN” AND THINKING “MAN” The Ploys of Famous Female Inverts Lillian Faderman In the 1880s, early in her career, the American suffrage leader Anna Howard Shaw sported what was at that time a distinctly mannish...

...Katherine Binhammer Duke University Press 2003 THE “SINGULAR PROPENSITY” OF SENSIBILITY’S EXTREMITIES Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture Katherine Binhammer The challenges of anachronism in writing pre-twentieth-century...

...Jennifer C. Nash “Black Anality” argues that “black” and “anal” are rendered ideologically, discursively, and representationally synonymous, and that black female flesh becomes the material space on which this convergence occurs. Drawing on an archive of online, widely accessible black...

...Graham N. Drake Queer medievalists deal with four major methodological questions: historical contextualization and nomenclature; the actuality of embodied erotic experience; the elision or erasure of female same-sex eroticism; and the periodization of history and the purpose of its study. Two...

... contexts of institutionalized racism in which it occurs. With Allums, systemic racism inside (and outside) education contributes to staging a debate about whether Allums deserves to keep an athletic scholarship he received as female instead of about why attending or remaining at George Washington depended...

...Peter A. Jackson This essay considers the role of market economies in global queering, the transnational proliferation of new male homosexual and male-to-female transgender identities and cultures. Early accounts of global queering highlighted the culturally homogenizing effects of transnational...

... queer theory has become gender exclusive: homosexuality has come to mean, in common academic usage, male homosexuality; gay history is gay male history; queer sexualities are all-too-often queer male sexualities. Women are not given equal weight to men, and the histories of male and female sexualities...

...Deborah A. Miranda Prior to contact with Europeans, California Indigenous peoples maintained a culture of three genders: male, female, and joya . Spanish missionaries and soldiers, however, viewed joyas as practicing “the execrable, unnatural abuse of their bodies” and reported that “we place our...

...Alexandra Juhasz In its time, at the Woman's Building, video played a central role in a unique feminist art education organized around the dangers of female representation and its associated pleasures of self-realization. Its collective video practices developed to acknowledge simultaneous points...

... histories to imagine intersections of migration, work, and desire experienced by African/Haitian American women who came from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Richmond, California, to work in Kaiser's shipyards during World War II. Narrating erotic encounters between black female shipbuilders, the piece meditates...

...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. This...

... humanness: a binary and stable sex, a singular means of reproduction, and a restricted set of possible sexual acts. The boundaries between male and female and animal and human also intersected with how medieval authors imagined boundaries between Christians and non-Christians and Europeans and non-Europeans...

... lesbian and gay identities, individual female subjectivities are much more complex and layered. In Padang, West Sumatra tombois and their girlfriends, who identify themselves as masculine and feminine, access global circuits of queer knowledge and see themselves as part of a global community, but maintain...

... practices that engage effeminacy, the feminine, and the female — queer figures of athleticism that cross, defy, redefine (that trans ) not only categories of sex but also the category of the human. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not...

... Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism Bernadette J. Brooten Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 ...