...Robert Azzarello Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire Mortimer-Sandilands Catriona and Erickson Bruce , eds. Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2010 . 410 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Books in Brief Anthologizing the Field Robert Azzarello...

...Kate Thomas Duke University Press 2007 “What Time We Kiss” Michael Field’s Queer Temporalities Kate Thomas Love, shall we triumph that our lips will touch When there are no more years, Or rather that we press Soul’s heart to heart What time we kiss? — Michael Field...

... a precarious field and secure it a future, and they can manifest as suspicion or concern over how later generations enter the field. I look elsewhere in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s oeuvre to see how she provides ways to both understand and disrupt this generational logic, and thus open up possibilities...

... studies with diaspora studies, area studies, and postcolonial theory. These books help forge the burgeoning field of “queer diasporas,” which works against the genealogical and heteronormative reproductive logic of conventional diaspora studies. At the same time, the field of queer diasporas also...

...Kevin Lamb; Patrick Singy As a field, the history of sexuality is often divided into Foucauldians and anti-Foucauldians. This essay, which reviews four recent contributions to the field, begins by showing that Michel Foucault's own methodology is ambiguous. Broad scholarly consensus rightly holds...

..., Valerie Traub, and Heather Love’s recent critiques of queer studies’ anti-empiricism. However, although ostensibly in line with Duggan’s argument, most of this recent work lacks Duggan’s attention to how specific institutional practices give shape to the field. In emphasizing discursive debates over...

... of the simultaneously personalizing and impersonalizing fields of sociality and sexuality is registered and negotiated. In order to secure a differently queer critical purchase on the couple formation, the abject figures of animal studies and queer studies — the pet and the couple — are thought unphobically together...

...Karen Barad Drawing on a disparate set of naturalcultural phenomena from regenerative biology, quantum field theory, and queer and trans theories that include lightning, primordial ooze, frogs, bioelectricity, monstrosity, trans rage, virtual particles, and errant pathways, this article is about...

.... As Frantzen predicted so accurately, the study of men and masculinity has been central to these new movements. However, in this essay reviewing four contributions to the field, I argue that women and femininity have once again become sidelined. Increasingly the terminology of both the history of sexuality...

...Heather Love This introduction for “Rethinking Sex” frames the contributions of Gayle Rubin to the contemporary field of sexuality studies through a discussion of her 1984 essay “Thinking Sex.” It discusses the 2009 conference that was the basis for this special issue as well as the significance...

...Regina Kunzel This review essay considers the “state of the field” of queer studies, as pondered by participants in the conference “Rethinking Sex.” Held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 4–6, 2009, “Rethinking Sex” honored the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's...

... be the condition of any sociability. She suggests that there is also a sociality at stake in human relationality that does not imply the intimate connotations of sociability. This sociality derives from the constitutive conditions of the body itself—a body always given over to others, which exists in a field...

... to field notes taken in 2010 among men who frequent Les Salines, this essay unites, in a provisional way, a scattered archive of same-sex desire on the island, while relating these desires critically to place. These archives ask us to reconsider a narrative that insists on movement—away from Martinique...

...Colin Carman There is a present need in contemporary queer theory to join forces with ecological criticism, specifically with the burgeoning field of animal studies, to critically assess the controversial life and writings of self-proclaimed “eco-warrior” Timothy Treadwell (1957 – 2003...

..., and national characteristics; and the flow of hormones across national borders through production and consumption. Bringing a transgender studies critique to bear on state practices and discourses that may appear marginal to the field, I suggest that although the hearings never directly reference the category...

... administration affect the political ecology of an entire archipelago? What insights can be gained by opening a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of political ecology and LGBTQ studies? This essay examines such questions through a late-nineteenth-century crackdown on “unnatural offences...

...Karen C. Krahulik In “A Class Act,” Karen C. Krahulik returns to the scene of her community history of Provincetown, Massachusetts, but uses a different methodology to assess the relationship between gentrification and transgression. Remaining within, but not confined by, the fields of history...

... reading within the wider social field from which it emerges. To do so, I turn to Samuel Delany’s experimental AIDS writing. Delany rewrites academic discourses of deconstruction, forcing critics to confront their affective and historical implication in the AIDS crisis. He uses queer experimental...

...Amalle Dublon Abstract The dossier section contains shorter writings that allow the reader to appreciate varied objects of study, and the potentially wide field of subjects and methods, relevant to the theme of a queer commons. From sound art and the internet, to urban activism and relationality...

... of what constitutes ethnography in the general field of queer studies and demonstrate that queer anthropology is imperative to consider in present and future developments in queer theory, methods, and analyses. These texts argue that it is time to move beyond the search for that which is “queer...