... WHITE MEN ARE HYSTERICAL Karen Tongson White Men Aren’t Thomas DiPiero Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. viii + 338 pp. In the introduction to his provocative book on white male subjectivity—or rather, on the frighteningly powerful, constructed “absence” of white masculinity itself...

...Richard Meyer Duke University Press 2006 Gay Power circa 1970 Visual Strategies for Sexual Revolution Richard Meyer You know, the guys there were so beautiful — they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.  — Allen Ginsberg, cited in “Gay Power Comes to Sheridan...

... and identifying with the figure of Frankenstein’s monster, claiming the transformative power of a return from abjection, felt like the right way to go. Looking back a decade later, I see that in having chosen to speak as a famous literary monster, I not only found a potent voice through which to offer...

...Sarah E. Chinn Duke University Press 2003 FEELING HER WAY Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch Sarah E. Chinn The Problem of Skin How can we talk about how lesbians have sex with each other? This is no trivial question: if sexual connection with other women is at the core...

... York: Vintage, 1980 . Foucault , Michel . An Interview: Sex, Power, and the Politics of Identity. Advocate 400 (August 7, 1984 ): 26 -30, 58. Foucault , Michel . Sade sergent du sexe. Cinématographe 16 ( 1975 ): 3 -7. Freud , Sigmund . From the History of an Infantile...

... in Pornography . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . MOVING IMAGE REVIEW 597 CUMMING TO POWER Mireille Miller- Young Ok, it s all yours. Come here! Johnny Wadd, the hard- boiled detective, pulls Cindy, the freshly minted widow, into a deep tongue kiss. The it that Wadd, played by the renowned adult...

... as the primary site of (post)colonial intervention, understood as both a replication and a critique of colonial violence. Placing the visceral so firmly within the alimentary tract allows Marechera to bring out the literal and metaphorical properties of consuming that, on the one hand, foreground the power...

... : Routledge . Bandes Susan . 1996 . “Empathy, Narrative, and Victim Impact Statement.” University of Chicago Law Review 63 : 361 – 411 . Berlant Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Butler Judith . 2004a . Precarious Life: The Powers...

...Uri McMillan This review essay considers a new electrifying strand of queer of color critique situated in the musky interstices of pleasure, abjection, and sex. These authors zero in on difference, encountered in the realm of sex, as an unexplored analytic mode to theorize power, sensation...

...Judith Halberstam Duke University Press 2001 GLQ 7.3-06 Halberstam 5/24/01 1:46 PM Page 425 OH BEHAVE! Austin Powers and the Drag Kings Judith Halberstam That ain’t no woman! It’s a man, man! —Austin Powers...

... indexes the dual nature of racialized, gendered, and sexualized power in the contemporary moment. That is, Moraga's complex identifications as butch and mother, queer and nationalist confounds any categorical definition of radical politics or recalcitrance to power. In the wake of the new social movements...

... 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...

...). For thirteen summers on Alaska's Katmai coast, Treadwell maintained a dangerous intimacy with a population of grizzly bears, a species of totemic significance with the power, he believed, to both redeem and destroy him. Theoretical works by Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway help illuminate the vexed power...

..., and the agency of human performers, this essay interrogates camp’s powerful attachments to humorlessness, sincerity, and nonhuman or dehumanized objects. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 feminism camp psychiatric disability References Ahmed Sara . 2010 . The Promise...

...Christina B. Hanhardt Abstract At the start of the 1990s the New York chapter of the activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was essential to the continuation of needle exchanges, which provide clean syringes to injection drug users without disapprobation or discipline and have been...

..., critical perspective, particular alliances with dominant power structures may often look like blatant and cynical attempts at self-advancement, there is abundant evidence that they are more often experienced as emotionally driven, personal choices that are different from political ones and superior to them...

... to address how power plays out in graduate school, often in the minute exercises of discipline and learning understood through sexual metaphors. The authors also exhibit a noteworthy interest and investment in popular culture that leads each to consider the larger implications of their intellectual work...

... and settler-colonialist appropriations; on the other hand, her work potentially offers a vision of the political that refuses to take human action as the inevitable starting point for its theories of power and domination, an increasingly urgent task in an age of ecological catastrophe, when the lives...

... as an iterative containment of ancestral time, a powerful form of self-fashioning in the present, and as an invitation to futurity. Brief framings of how the various essays in the special issue elaborate what we are calling the queer customary follow. © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 This content is made...

... in African technologies of queerness that emphasize interdependency and elusiveness. As queer Kenya becomes increasingly out, loud, and sexy, Wainaina’s work serves as a powerful reminder that ambiguity can be theatrical too. © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Binyavanga Wainaina queer African...