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GLQ (2008) 14 (1): 69–98.
Published: 01 January 2008
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2006) 12 (4): 655–657.
Published: 01 October 2006
... categories of “men” who engage in sexual relations with
other men or with hijras.
650 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES
Hijras themselves are, for the most part, phenotypic men who wear female
clothing, assume feminine names, and, ideally, renounce sexual desire and prac...
Journal Article
GLQ (2002) 8 (4): 523–552.
Published: 01 October 2002
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 351–376.
Published: 01 June 2006
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (1998) 4 (3): 423–451.
Published: 01 June 1998
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (1999) 5 (3): 315–329.
Published: 01 June 1999
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2003) 9 (4): 471–498.
Published: 01 October 2003
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2019) 25 (4): 513–543.
Published: 01 October 2019
... AESTHETICS Nilbar Güre s Photography and Female Homoerotic Intimacy Duygu Ula In her stand- alone photographic work Ays¸e Fatma y Seviyor (Ays¸e Loves Fatma), Nilbar Güres¸ focuses our attention on a curiously ambiguous scene (Fig. 1). Two middle- aged women with their arms around each other, one...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 439–460.
Published: 01 October 2014
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 639–658.
Published: 01 October 2008
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2022) 28 (4): 541–566.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Juno Jill Richards This study follows the oceanic routes of female migrant laborers as a way to reconsider the geographies of queer theory through the colonial port city. In so doing, the author highlights feminized forms of migrant labor, including sex work and care work, as a central facet...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 435–463.
Published: 01 October 2013
... 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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 461–490.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of 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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2010) 16 (3): 451–464.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and 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...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 253–284.
Published: 01 April 2010
...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...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 624–628.
Published: 01 October 2011
...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...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (2-3): 263–276.
Published: 01 June 2012
... 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 on the changing...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (1-2): 141–166.
Published: 01 April 2014
...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...
Journal Article
GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 481–507.
Published: 01 October 2008
...” of 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...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (3): 357–395.
Published: 01 June 2009
...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...
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