...Pat Moloney Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Reader Peter M. Nardi and Beth E. Schneider, eds. London: Routledge, 1998. xiii + 625 pp.$85.00 cloth, $27.99 paper The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo...

...Sue-Ellen Case Copyright © 1993 by Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA 1993 The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader . Joan Nestle. Boston: Alyson, 1992 ...

...Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud; Simon Reader This essay argues that bitchiness is an art form, a style of misanthropy and satiric dissonance that breaks with pious norms of mundane accuracy and “niceness.” Like the more commonly discussed category of camp, bitchiness is an off-color queer sensibility born...

...Monica Bachmann Duke University Press 2000 1045-02.Bachmann 5/31/00 3:08 PM Page 377 “SOMEONE LIKE DEBBY” (De)Constructing a Lesbian Community of Readers Monica Bachmann Many scholars agree that the 1940s saw dramatic changes...

..., and two-spirit activism, and the scholarship that has grown out of that activism. He warns that times may well be getting worse rather than better for this kind of scholarship and activism, and encourages readers to understand the collection as a rallying call to further and more complex and critical work...

... that fuse readers into the heteronormative public sphere. Bad reading conjures new economies of social and erotic relation in historical moments when queer belonging is foreclosed, stigmatized, or forgotten. Locating bad reading beside paranoid, reparative, and postcritical reading, the essay situates queer...

... Sedgwick’s article through a biographical lens, the author argues that while readers have been more interested in Sedgwick’s neologism, queer performativity , than in her close reading of James’s prefaces, the real drama of Sedgwick’s article lies in her near-identification with James’s bouts of depression...

..., this essay orients its readers to the ways that queer reading and queer literature have sustained, shaped, and redefined queer life. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved...

... abound, such reflections and the literary canons they produce do not account for racialized readers or literary traditions. This neglect becomes evident when examining women and queer of color anthologies as well as scenes of reading in three texts published from the advent of explicitly LGBTQ2 of color...

...Amalle Dublon Abstract The dossier section contains shorter writings that allow the reader to appreciate varied objects of study, and the potentially wide field of subjects and methods, relevant to the theme of a queer commons. From sound art and the internet, to urban activism and relationality...

...Lorraine E. Herbst In this review I introduce readers to three exemplary ethnographies. All three contribute not only to anthropological and queer studies literatures but also to discourses and critiques of globalization, transnationalism, and neoliberalism. Further, these works destabilize notions...

... then ruminate on such topics as the potential erasure of the queer political history that the original article provoked readers to consider in the time during and since its printing, the haunting answer to the original article’s haunting subtitular question—“the radical potential of queer politics?,” and new...

...Jessica Stacey Abstract This article suggests that we might find a new way to address two stubborn questions regarding Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions through a single shift in perspective. These two questions are: What can we make of the antipathy that readers often feel toward this text...

...Lauren Jae Gutterman; Martin F. Manalansan, IV; Stephen Vider This essay serves as the introduction to a special issue of GLQ , “Queering the Domestic.” The essay both summarizes the interventions of the essays in this special issue and introduces readers to the concept of queer domesticity...

... by significatory play. But I ask us to stay with what is construed as the tacky, second level of entendre and consider that différance is introduced when “The Lesbian Phallus” poises—and parodies poising—for a blow: a reader who would strive to imagine the ways in which a lesbian...

... form to impart. The importance of Morley’s introduction lies precisely in its attempt to convert the common reader to connoisseurship, to cultivate those for whom Saki would otherwise he a forgettable early phase. In doing so, Morley identifies the rules that tacitly govern Saki’s fiction...

... the imaginations and excite the desires of generations of girlhood readers is precisely Jo’s refusal of normative girlhood identifications and desires; she wants to be the man of the family, not the little woman; she wants to be a soldier, not a seamstress; and she wants to be like Laurie, not have him. So...

... 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...

... requires an undisciplining of the subject of study. Readers should approach this text with a clear sense of their own disciplinary commitments and an openness to Jaleel's project, which may not align with their own. The author focuses on a particular historical rupture, analyzing rape in relationship...

... . 2014 . “ Criphystemologies: What Disability Theory Needs to Know about Hysteria .” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 8 , no. 2 : 185 – 201 . Newton Esther . [1972] 1999 . “ Role Models .” In Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject—a Reader , edited...