...Caetlin Benson-Allott America First: Naming the Nation in US Film Mandy Merck, ed. London: Routledge , 2007 . xi + 313 pp . Duke University Press 2008 Caetlin Benson-Allott is a PhD candidate in English language and literature at Cornell University. Books in Brief...

... capitalism, representing new queer sexualities beyond the West as cultural imports from the United States. But international similarities among queer cultures also emerge from parallel processes of sex-cultural change produced by national-level forms of capitalism. Case studies from Thai queer history trace...

...Raz Yosef Duke University Press 2005 Moving Image Review THE NATIONAL CLOSET Gay Israel in Yossi and Jagger Raz Yosef Love should never be a secret”: this is the tagline in the advertising campaign for Eytan Fox’s award-winning Israeli gay fi lm, Yossi and Jagger (2002) (fi g. 1...

...Jens Richard Giersdorf Duke University Press 2006 WHY DOES CHARLOTTE VON MAHLSDORF CURTSY? Representations of National Queerness in a Transvestite Hero Jens Richard Giersdorf For Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an East German transvestite, 2004 was a signifi- cant year. Clad in her...

...Jodie Medd Duke University Press 2006 “Patterns of the Possible” National Imaginings and Queer Historical (Meta)Fictions in Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys Jodie Medd  — When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You...

... the nation” by the program to show how Drag Race 's unmarked English proficiency requirement unravels the fantasy of an equal opportunity United States. This analysis of language in Drag Race shows how national and transnational inequalities continue to be a drag on narratives of gay progress...

...Corinne E. Blackmer Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 ETHNOPORN, LESBIAN CHILDHOOD, AND NATIVE MATERNAL CULTURE Reading National Geographic with Elizabeth Bishop Corinne E. Blackmer The terms ethnoporn and lesbian childhood would seem intrinsic oxymorons. Photographs of...

...Sean Patrick Larvie Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 QUEERNESS AND THE SPECTER OF BRAZILIAN NATIONAL RUIN Sean Patrick Larvie snJune 1996 Lair Guerra de Macedo Rodrigues, director of Brazil’s National Program on Sexually Transmissible Diseases and AIDS (NPSTD...

...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...

...Olivia Khoo Duke University Press 2007 The Ground beneath Her Feet Fault Lines of Nation and Sensation in Yau Ching’s Ho Yuk: Let’s Love Hong Kong Olivia Khoo All my life, I worshipped her. Her golden voice, her beauty’s beat. How she made us feel, how she made me real...

... simultaneously produce legitimate citizens out of commissioning parents and children, as well as a superior and exceptional nation-state. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 surrogacy homonationalism exceptionalism fatherhood assemblage References Aalborg Berit Strøyer . 2011 . “Vil...

..., 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 by the...

... California, Santa Cruz. Books in Brief One Nation under Gay Greg Youmans Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America’s Debate on Homosexuality Fred Fejes New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 280 pp. In an early scene of Gus Van Sant’s Milk (2008), Harvey Milk approaches the...

...Licia Fiol-Matta Duke University Press 2000 GLQ 6.4-01.Fiol-Matta. 10/4/00 10:06 AM Page 491 “RACE WOMAN” Reproducing the Nation in Gabriela Mistral Licia Fiol-Matta The Chilean poet, educator, and Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral...

...Brenna M. Munro This essay examines the often overlooked role that the idea of gay rights played in producing the new imaginary of the postapartheid “rainbow nation”—and its neoliberal economic order. I suggest that the figure of the gay person became an embodiment of political change, symbolically...

...Amar Wahab The stigmatization of Caribbean postcolonial nation-states in the Western imagination as exemplifying some of the most homophobic nationalisms masks a more-nuanced reading of the complexities of Caribbean modernity. As such, the hardening of homophobic nationalisms in settings such as...

...Duygu Ula Focusing on photographs by Nilbar Güreş, a visual and performance artist, this article analyzes how her images deconstruct and reimagine the various identities of the Turkish nation and Western discourses of homosexuality at once. By depicting seemingly conventional women in traditional...

...Emmanuel David This article examines state and corporate discourses that portray outsourced call center workers as bagong bayani , or “new national heroes” of the Philippines. Through a queer reading of state narratives and corporate advertisements that deploy these rhetorical devices, I argue that...

... postcolonial subjects in Cape Town and Hong Kong. In a moment of intensified counterterrorism, necropolitical nationalism, and resurgent yet covert forms of empire, both works have much to say about how the lives of sexual minorities are simultaneously affected by and resist Western imperialism. Thus they also...