... this newly envisioned space to a broader struggle for social justice. I saw myself as a fellow traveler. THINKING SEX/THINKING GENDER 213 Finally, I perceived a tremendous utility, both political and theoretical, in the new concept of an antiessentialist...

... this newly envisioned space to a broader struggle for social justice. I saw myself as a fellow traveler. THINKING SEX/THINKING GENDER 213 Finally, I perceived a tremendous utility, both political and theoretical, in the new concept of an antiessentialist...

...Todd R. Ramlow Duke University Press 2003 BAD BOYS Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth “Deviance” Todd R. Ramlow As in common homophobic discourse, the object of devaluation and intolerance in discourses of disability is seemingly erased in the phobic utterance...

...Cris Mayo How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS Paula A. Treichler
 Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xi + 477 pp.$64.95 cloth, $23.95 paper The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics Cathy J. Cohen
 Chicago: University of Chicago...

...Ramzi Fawaz This essay explores the use of viscerally charged language around digestive dysfunction in AIDS cultural productions of the late 1980s and early 1990s. I coin the phrase “the digestive politics and poetics of AIDS” to describe the use of metaphors that linked the digestive dysfunctions...

...Melissa Autumn White Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities . Chávez Karma R. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2013 . ix + 214 pp . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 BOOKS IN BRIEF...

... the materiality of political imageries and the possibilities for making queer alliance with nature's nonessentialist nature. In particular, it makes an argument for the radically deconstructive, queer, and trans nature of nature, including nature's own engagement with materialist practices of imagining. © 2015...

... 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...

... Cultural Politics in the 1970s.” GLQ 16 , no. 3 : 389 – 427 . Edelman Lee . 1994 . Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory . New York : Routledge . Foley Barbara . 1986 . Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction . Ithaca : Cornell...

... . www.jobstreet.com.ph/jobs/2012/8/i/80/3498884.htm?fr=J . Irving Dan . 2008 . “Normalized Transgressions: Legitimizing the Transsexual Body as Productive.” Radical History Review 100 ( Winter ): 38 – 59 . ———. 2012 . “Elusive Subjects: Notes on the Relationship between Critical Political Economy...

... Theory beyond a Politics of Difference H. N. Lukes Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism Madhavi Menon Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. ix + 145 pp. Readers struggling to determine what exactly is queer about Madhavi Menon’s new book are advised to skip...

... Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Crè Lynley Hood Dunedin: Longacre , 2001 . 672 pp . che Case Neil Miller Los Angeles: Alyson , 2002 . xvii + 313 pp . Duke University Press 2004 Book Review INNOCENT PLEASURES? Children and Sexual Politics Patrick McCreery Harmful...

... both deeply politicized and highly prized by most reviewers, as they saw being gay — or, at least, being openly, proudly gay in the way they understood it — as a relative novelty, made possible by gay people’s collective actions within the decade’s gay political movement...

..., and Decision Making: The Challenge to LGBT Politics Amy L. Stone How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism Tina Fetner Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxiii + 200 pp. Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations Jane Ward Nashville...

...Amalia Ziv The essay discusses the Israeli queer activist group Black Laundry that emerged in 2001 following the outbreak of the second Intifada. The analysis underscores Black Laundry's move away from the assimilationist politics of the LGBT community in Israel with its narrow understanding...

...Erin Runions This essay reviews four books on the role of religion in shaping state policy, political rhetoric, and activism for and against same-sex rights in the United States. These books are instructive in thinking through relations between race and religion, sexuality and race, religion...

.... Books in Brief Diacriticisms! Kevin Bourque Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play Jennifer DeVere Brody Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xi + 221 pp. Those who feel passionately enough to subscribe to a philosophy of punctuation tend to locate themselves in relation to two...

...Martin Joseph Ponce Regarded as the first anglophone Filipino literary modernist, José Garcia Villa (1908–1997) has typically been seen as an aesthetic formalist who refused to place literature in the service of national or ethnic politics. This essay rethinks this presumption by pursuing a queer...

... and politicization of 532 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES sex, gender, and sexuality in the Philippines, and do so in fields as diverse as law, politics, religion, health, education, development, the media, the nonprofit sector, the arts, and the academy. Here I look...

... of transgender, they offer important insight into the biopolitical and geopolitical contexts through which gendered subjects are produced and maintained. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Substance of Borders Transgender Politics, Mobility, and US State Regulation of Testosterone Toby...