...Amy Bhatt Books in Brief FECUNDITY, FERTILITY CONTROL, AND FEMINIST “ALLIANCES” Amy Bhatt Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India Asha Nadkarni Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. x + 264 pp. In Eugenic Feminism Asha Nadkarni...

...Alice D. Dreger; April M. Herndon Since 1990, when Suzanne Kessler published her foundational feminist critique of the modern-day medical treatment of children with intersex, much has changed in intersex politics, practice, and theory. This essay traces some key points of progress and considers in...

...Jayna Brown Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance . McMillan Uri . New York : New York University Press , 2015 . ix + 283 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 References Brooks Daphne . 2006 . Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular...

... Women in Pornography . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Musser Amber . 2014 . Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism . New York : New York University Press . Books in Brief BEYOND THE WOUND Black Feminist Pleasure in Hard-­Core Pornography Jennifer DeClue The...

... . www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/opinion/gospel-of-intolerance.html . EVANGELICAL ECSTASY MEETS FEMINIST FURY Sex Trafficking, Moral Panics, and Homonationalism during Global Sporting Events Gregory Mitchell Introduction In February 2011 police “rescued” about eighty travesti (loosely translated...

...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...

... pornographies, I develop the term black anality to describe how black pleasures are represented as peculiarly and particularly oriented toward the anus, and thus as peculiarly and particularly attached to anal ideologies . In doing so, I depart from black feminist scholarship, which has long examined the...

...Ruthann Lee This essay considers the production of racialized masculinities in the contemporary artwork of the Singaporean-born queer diasporic artist Dominique Hui and the queer Aboriginal/Cree artist Kent Monkman. Recent debates in anti-racist feminist, queer, and Native feminist scholarship...

...Samuel Solomon “Offsetting Queer Literary Labor” asks how LGBTQ+ people and other feminists navigated late twentieth-century changes in print technology from roughly 1965 to 1990, a period in which typesetting was first computerized and then all but abandoned as part of the preprint process. I do...

...S. Pearl Brilmyer; Filippo Trentin; Zairong Xiang This essay excavates from within the history of feminist and queer theory a series of implicit theories of the couple, ranging from French feminist critiques of asymmetrical heterosexual relationships to triadic accounts of the queer as couple’s...

... drawings of the books on the shelves. In addition to photographs of the installation, the GLQ Gallery features examples of Mitchell's original drawings. In a brief commentary on the installation, Ann Cvetkovich discusses how Mitchell brings lesbian feminist history and culture to a larger public and...

...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...

...Adi Kuntsman Informed by feminist and queer scholarship debates on sexuality, migration, and the nation, this article examines the role of violence—in particular, homophobic hate speech—in negotiating immigrant belonging through sexuality. The article is based on my ethnographic study of Russian...

... is an academic who approaches her research on both transgender and intersex from a social science perspective, informed by queer and feminist theorizing. Although the prior work of the four authors clearly indicates a shared commitment to change the situation of intersex people, the mechanisms for...

... group's insistence on linking queer and feminist issues with the struggle against the occupation, together with its emphasis on bodily practices and utterances, is shown to have far-reaching implications for the very understanding of political agency. Performative Politics in Israeli Queer Anti...

...Gayle Rubin This article reflects on the intellectual and political circumstances of the publication of Gayle Rubin's 1984 essay “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” In particular, the article considers the context of the feminist “sex wars” of the late 1970s and...

... surround in an effort to outline the impact of passionate engagement in feminist and queer politics and scholarship. Duke University Press 2010 Love and Anger Scenes from a Passionate Career Lisa Duggan Gayle Rubin exudes a cool brilliance. But she contains multitudes, and beneath the surface...

...Mark J. Miller This essay uses the work of Jonathan Edwards to trace intellectual, historical, and theoretical connections between eighteenth-century religious conversion in England and New England and later accounts of masochism's Enlightenment philosophical basis. Expanding feminist readings of...