... Figure Skating Politics and the Many Pleasures of Life Claire Carter Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice Erica Rand Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2102. x + 309 pp. On a recent visit with an old high school friend...

... approach from psy- choanalytic ones. The imprecision here is the point: Halperin combines discrete conceptual lexicons to resist the authority of any vocabulary in particular. The book opens with a meticulously documented analysis of gay men’s sex- ual risk taking. The figures Halperin marshals...

...Lucas Crawford This article argues that queer theory must depart from three temporalities often attributed to fat bodies even in queer circles and theory—most notably by Lauren Berlant in the much-lauded Cruel Optimism . It asserts that figural exploitations of fatness have been too quickly...

.... If such a proclamation seems to suggest the presence of a ghostly figure, he invites us to attend to the ways it haunts the politics of racialized masculinity. Studies that examine these politics often read the process of manning the race as the mounting of an assertive defense through traditionally patriarchal values...

... at Bryn Mawr College. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-014 Books in Brief 669 Figuring (Out) the I David Namie Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust Michael Lucey Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006...

...- choanalytic ones. The imprecision here is the point: Halperin combines discrete conceptual lexicons to resist the authority of any vocabulary in particular. The book opens with a meticulously documented analysis of gay men’s sex- ual risk taking. The figures Halperin marshals demonstrate how...

... to keep up with new articulations and to grant his analysis the territory that it deserves. Libby Adler is associate professor of law at Northeastern University. 630 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES FIGURES OF HOMOSEXUALITY Ross Chambers Insult and the Making...

...Christina A. León [email protected] Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies . Francisco J. Galarte . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2021 . viii + 192 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 At a moment...

...Renugan Raidoo This article argues that homophobia should be read as a political engagement with social and economic uncertainty and its perceived causes through an extended analogy with the work on the modernity of witchcraft. “Figuration” is theorized as a way to account for, first, how senses...

... University Press 2020 THE PROBLEM OF TRANS- FIGURATION Gender, the Jesuits, and the Ojibwe in Louise Erdrich s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Lydia R. Cooper In an open letter to the Lambda Literary Award committee, Joshua Whitehead (Oji- Cree, Peguis First Nation) turned down...

... as women, safer (Collinson and Diamond 2016 ). 7. As Puar ( 2013 : 338) further observes in a later discussion of homonationalism, “Settler colonialism has a long history of articulating its violence through the protection of serviceable figures such as women and children, and now the homosexual...

...Christina A. León Abstract This article traces the figure of polvo (dust) across the writing career of Puerto Rican and New York writer Manuel Ramos Otero. Polvo heralds the macabre sensuality of his early short stories, long before his diagnosis with HIV, and persists and morphs through his later...

... in relation to Leo Bersani's analysis of gay male desire and subjectivity, Bidart's work illuminates that the self-present human voice on which testimony seems to rely is itself a rhetorical figure whose grounding in the body can never be fully located or made distinct from its own figural status. Through...

...Gabby Benavente; Julian Gill-Peterson In “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory’s Evil Twin,” part of the 2004 forum “Thinking Sex/Thinking Gender,” Susan Stryker underlined a critical way in which trans people had become exceptionalized by a certain strand of queer theory, serving as figures...

... the colonial archive mobilizes Mwanga to argue that colonialism and Christianity rescued Ugandans from homosexuality, two versions of the postcolonial library simultaneously lionize and demonize this historical figure for differing ideological purposes. While the earlier postcolonial library briefly...

.... The vanguard of today’s astrological movement is led by the queer Left. Uprooted from its role as fate’s theological handmaiden for mounting figures of authority and apparently removed from the (implicitly heterosexual) reproductive model of a mainstream “culture industry,” queer astrology has come to the fore...

... agency in a queer, posthumanist context. Butler's vampires become figures through which the text highlights conflicting desires (for independence and dependence, autonomy and belonging) that flow through the seemingly unified modern subject. This novel reinforces feminist and queer critiques of humanist...

..., they literally leave behind their queer lovers and figuratively abandon all that those lovers represent when the storylines turn nearly exclusively to familial and cultural ties. As a result, such films suggest that the boundaries of nation in indigenous contexts are constructed and maintained...

... and Narragansett words. Appropriations from Williams's lexicon introduce the figure of translation into the poem and also allow Stevens to create echoes between present and past. The poem concerns two types of contact: contact as historical phenomenon in the Americas and contact as contemporary sexuality. Stevens...

... of toxicity proposes an extant queer bond, one more prevalent today than is perhaps given credit. Such a toxic queer bond might complicate utopian imagining, as well as address how and where subject-object dispositions might be attributed to the relational queer figure. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...