...Joanne Meyerowitz Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 SEX CHANGE AND THE POPULAR PRESS Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930–1955 Joanne Meyerowitz On 1 December 1952, the New York Daily News announced the “sex change” surgery of Christine...

...Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist; Catrine Andersson We discuss “love” as a rhetorical strategy in the Swedish gay press, 1969–86, in relation to shifting meanings of sex and love. During this period, meanings of homosexual subjectivity were rapidly changing at several societal levels. New ideals...

...T. J. Tallie The media coverage of President Jacob Zuma and the “problem” of his foreign and potentially threatening polygamy reveals the long-extant gendered and raced fault lines of the presumably postcolonial relationship between Britain and South Africa. The discourses in the British press...

... observation, archival records (minutes, flyers, newsletters, letters, and financial papers), and media accounts in the Chicago gay press. I describe the founding of LLENA and Amigas Latinas, their efforts to create Latina lesbian visibility in both the “Latino” and “lesbian” social and political cultures...

...James Welker This essay examines four books recently published as part of the Queer Asia series, launched by Hong Kong University Press in 2008. These multidisciplinary monographs and edited collections offer a glimpse of the increasing diversity of scholarship in Asian queer studies...

... University Press 2018 reading race queer of color critique References Abdur-Rahman Aliyyah . 2012 . Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Alexander M. Jacqui . 2005 . Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations...

... of queer eroticism. The novel’s provocations of bad reading condense an affective archive of unsanctioned queer hermeneutics, which have been elided in disciplinary debates over critical reading. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Samuel R. Delany queer experimental literature AIDS...

... and relational ethic that enables black life and liberation in the catastrophic present. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 ecstasy aesthetics black life black ecstatic References Abdur-Rahman Aliyyah I. 2012 . Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics...

... or this history, this article argues that the concrete forms of feminized labor that attend literary technologies have been and continue to be the basis for the category of LGBT literature. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Karen Brodine labor Marxist-feminism poetry queer literature...

... art of lying, in order to imagine new forms of travesti survival, and less cruel ways of travesti death. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 travesti dreams Peru queer art of lying References Abu-Lughod Lila . 1986 . Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin...

... features of No Future , the article demonstrates how Edelman’s assertions are insistently tempered by forms of ambiguity, ambivalence, nuance, and irony that challenge critics’ dominant conception of the book as intractable and totalizing. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Lee Edelman...

... of complicity that bind the work of self-preservation to the reproduction of orders of racial difference that threaten to erupt into murderous violence. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 queer of color self-shattering death Leo Bersani Georges Bataille negativity narcissism...

...Roberto Strongman BOOKS IN BRIEF 165 BRIDGES OF LIGHT Roberto Strongman Ezili s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders Omise eke Natasha Tinsley Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. xi + 264 pp. Written in a language of gaps, fissures, and queer assemblage, Ezili s Mirrors is a difficult text...

..., 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...

...Bonnie Ruberg Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Anthropy Anna . 2012 . Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form . New York : Seven...

...Chandan Reddy Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References Benjamin Walter . 2003 . Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938 – 1940 . Edited by Jennings Michael W. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . Cohen Cathy J. 1997 . “ Punks...

.../antinormative is salutary, but that her reliance on Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse raises difficult questions about the meaning of historical forms of queer experience and feeling in the era of gay marriage. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 marriage family kinship normativity...

... University Press 2019 temporality special issues editing twenty-fifth anniversary issue References Dinshaw Carolyn . 1999 . Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Edelman Lee . 2004 . No Future: Queer...

..., thereby instantiating the radical claims of those fields via a posthumanist perspective unbound by conventional claims to identity, agency, and alterity. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Queer studies human/animal studies the couple the pet posthumanism Gilles Deleuze and Félix...

... of the position we call the zero . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 couple ontology negativity relationality anus yinyang nondialectics References Adorno Theodor W. [1966] 1973 . Negative Dialectics . Translated by Ashton E. B. . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul...