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... IN BRIEF 311 BUTLER’S BODIES OF WORK Carla Freccero The Judith Butler Reader Edited by Sara Salih, with Judith Butler Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004. viii + 374 pp. Those who teach Judith Butler’s work have looked forward to a reader that gathers key parts of her extensive corpus...

..., entertaining read. It is legitimate, of course, to inquire after queer theory by asking twenty-­two US scholars, one of whom teaches in Canada, to take its pulse. Another way to assess whether queer research is stagnating, declining, or thriving might be to look at what is happening outside the North...

...Bronwyn A. Wilson Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 BOOKS IN BRIEF 209 LOOK CAREFULLY Bronwyn A. Wilson The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine Eric Plemons Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. xi + 183 pp. Medical anthropologist Eric...

... and activism as attempts to counter the inexorable passage of Chinese neoliberal time. At the conclusion of the documentary, the chalk girl looks forward to a time when two types of politics will collide: it ends with her returning to the staircase leading up to the headquarters of the SAR government...

...Mark Rifkin The Queerness of Native American Literature . Tatonetti Lisa . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . xxii + 278 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 BOOKS IN BRIEF 315 LOOKING FOR THE QUEER...

... male physique magazines. How did this dandy gay bachelor from San Francisco survive the isolation, humiliation, and heteronormativity of imprisonment? The essay recounts the trials and tribulations of looking for Onuma in the mute photographs and other material remains that constitute his archival...

... not recognized. Poetry from the future interrupts the habitual formation of bodies, and it is an index of a time to come in which what exists potently, even if not (yet) effectively, today but escapes us will find its time. Duke University Press 2009 Looking for M —  Queer Temporality, Black Political...

...R. Galvan © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 582 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES ONE DAY I WILL FORGET YOU Looking at Porn R. Galvan I should have asked for details, I thought as I took possession of my neighbor s gay belongings. It was the early 2000s, and among my friends...

...Mary Zaborskis This essay looks at Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s contribution to the first issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies . I argue that Sedgwick’s piece indexes generational anxieties that have come to characterize queer studies. These anxieties come from an attempt to protect...

... short story “Le Mulâtre,” by the African American author Victor Séjour. “Le Mulâtre” takes me to unwieldy genealogies of kinship, incest, and same-sex desire. Here, I look to the sexual epistemologies of Vodou religious practices in Haiti; I engage pre-Freudian theories of Oedipus by Johann Jakob...

...Erica Rand “Court and Sparkle” looks at effects, ideas, and diversions in discourses around gender authenticity in sport through two 2010 controversies. One involved Kye Allums, who came out as transgender right before his third season playing NCAA Division I basketball for George Washington...

... about a boy's feelings for sport tells us considerably more than that about him. This article looks at the special role played by sport in what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once called “the war on effeminate boys” (1991). Following Sedgwick, the article considers how gendered ideas about sport and athleticism...

... to set the outer limits of sexual liberty for both children and adults. Next, the essay looks back to the early work of queer theorists, legal scholars, and lawyers to unearth a more promising vision of law's relationship to children's queerness. By juxtaposing how two judges approached the possibility...

... and to look at how genocidal sexual orphanings might be recalibrated in Native fiction toward survivance rather than disappearance. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Native American studies children education queer childhood References Alexander M. Jacqui . 2005 . Pedagogies...

..., but she contrasts the pointedness of the novel's plot with the looser repetitious structure of the poem's nightly séances. To show that this pointedness is characteristic of Merrill's novelistic writing, Sedgwick also looks at two actual novels that Merrill had published years earlier, The Seraglio (1957...