... sexualities, nonoedipal psychologies, and the analysis of virtuosic performances (including, eventually, her own) of cultural authority. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Black Swan Poetry, Punishment, and the Sadomasochism of Everyday Life; or, Tradition and the Individual Talent Michael...

... . Humanities Review BIOPOWER BELOW AND BEFORE THE INDIVIDUAL Kyla Schuller Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era Paul B. Preciado, translated by Bruce Benderson New York: Feminist Press, 2013. x + 427 pp. The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America...

...Erin Calhoun Davis Drawing on Butler's theory of gender performativity, which conceptualizes the discursive production of the gendered subject and the corresponding “constitutive instabilities” of such reiterative practices, I provide an empirical sociological examination of how individuals...

... 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...

... historical legacies, the vigor as well as the fragility of counterpublics, the tensions between individualizing and collectivizing responses to disaster, and the social management of despair. Yet despite their virtues, these books also raise questions about the limitations of accounts that isolate HIV/AIDS...

... notion of performativity, I approach homophobic hate speech as a form of performative violence that constitutes, rather than simply expresses or devastates, individual and collective subjectivities of “queers,” “Russian immigrants,” “Jews,” and “Israelis.” Yet I also complicate the performative take by...

... representations of legal or illegal immigrant status as a sign of individual character, rather than as an outcome of multiple relations of power, the article highlights the central role of sexual regimes in constructing the distinction between legal and illegal. The article further explores, however, how sexual...

... presented as a positive new construction of fatherhood, a way to reclaim paternity on new emotional and social terms. This development represents a shift in the dynamics of gay assimilation: by drawing on the discourses of competitive individualism, these narratives reveal the complex politics of gay...

... convergence of the treatment of homosexuality and intersex. The contemporary association of homosexuality with intersex risks obscuring genuine medical concerns unique to the treatment of intersex conditions and the consequences for affected individuals. At the same time, we must reckon with the ways that the...

... identification. Native and queer studies have, together and separately, worked to theorize and defend various kinds of diversity as well as individual and collective self-representation in the face of totalizing state legalities and ideologies, and this special issue is devoted to the intersections of those...

... between these two trajectories, we argue, has informed queer theory from its inception. We develop the concept of queer bondsto describe relations radically in excess of humanist and neoliberal accounts of the individual, suggesting queer theory has always been a theory of queer bonds. If sex is (or...

... analyzes the relationship between the concept of perversion and liberal politics—a politics of individualism, liberty, and consent. As one book reveals, efforts to defend BDSM as “safe, sane, and consensual” participate in liberal political discourse, but certain aspects of BDSM also pressure connections...

... transcribed interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York. Schulman's discussion of her project reveals the patchwork of individual identities, political priorities, and talents that contributed to the significant successes of ACT UP as an agent of social change while also...

... of the subject himself or herself rather than the internalized form of subjection through which each individual becomes legible as a social subject. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Queer Value Meg Wesling This essay approaches the relation between Marxism and queer theory by con­...

... conception of durable and impersonal relations of holding that extend beyond the temporality of any one individual life. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 “Permeable We!” Affect and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity in Eve Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love Tyler Bradway In one of her last...

... situates them on the common ground of a critical, interdisciplinary (queer) “humanities” methodology that continues to test its efficacy in accounting for ongoing processes of subjective formation and de-formation, both individual and collective, that insist on organizing themselves into and around...

... homonormative models of citizenship in Canada. I examine how Hui's and Monkman's works reflect and mediate the interactions of multiple racialized masculinities in an identity-driven and individualized culture of neoliberalism and global consumer capitalism. Overall, I suggest that applying Native feminist...

... theorized as a threefold process of appropriation for les community formation and individual maneuvering around social stigma. By contingent , this article refers to invisibility that is “dependent” on a postsocialist state policing of urban space and “strategic” for les who gatekeep events. Contingent is...

... of life narrative practices can be understood as periperformative: texts that both narrate an individual life and critically interrogate the textual conditions under which lives are narrated. I suggest that a key element of periperformative life narrative is a critique of the importance of using a...

... men with livres rather than just sous in their pockets) or received it (the unemployed servants). Like Foucault and Noël, Fed- erici was less interested in the sexual roles played by such individuals than in their ages. He characterized an adolescent, who was old enough to know...