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..., Professor, Department of English and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California 682 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES Call for Reviewers We...

... in Austin, I see lots of performance, very little of which gets the kind of attention it deserves from the mainstream press. Second, I had approached the arts editors of Austin’s weekly paper, the Chronicle, and its only daily, the Austin American- Statesman, about writing reviews, and while they were...

...: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. Fuss Diana. Signs 18 ( 1993 ): 984 -88. Penn , Donna . “Queer: Theorizing Politics and History.” Radical History Review 62 ( Spring 1995 ): 24 -43. Sontag , Susan . “Notes on Camp.” Against Interpretation . New York: Dell, 1964 . 275 -92...

...Don Kulick Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 TRANSGENDER AND LANGUAGE A Review of the literature and Suggestions for the Future Don Kulick At some very basic level, globalization and transnationalism- the themes of this special issue of GLQ-imply both...

...Regina Kunzel This review essay considers the “state of the field” of queer studies, as pondered by participants in the conference “Rethinking Sex.” Held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 4–6, 2009, “Rethinking Sex” honored the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's...

...Brian J. Distelberg An analysis of gay male reviewers' responses to major commercial publishers' expanded offerings of fiction by and about gay people during the 1970s reveals how reviewers constructed a machinery of gay-identified criticism, negotiated new definitions of gay identity, and forged...

...Ricardo L. Ortíz This essay reviews three scholarly works of queer-inflected US Chican@ and Latin@ studies that appeared in 2009 and 2010. The projects range in disciplinary approach from cultural studies (Rodríguez) to literary studies (Soto) to performance studies (Gutiérrez), but the review...

...Will Stockton This essay reviews three recent books on perversion —a term that psychology has replaced with the ostensibly less-pathologizing term paraphilia , but which remains operative in popular discourse. Besides exploring the reasons for and limitations of this replacement, this essay...

...Margot Weiss This essay explores methodological dilemmas in queer anthropology by reviewing three recent queer ethnographies: Mary Gray's Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America ; Mark Padilla's Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS...

...Paul Sendziuk; Roger Hallas; Jim Hubbard; Debra Levine In the age of AIDS, film and video became one of the principal means for grief-stricken activists and artists to bear witness and make sense of the epidemic and the loss of their lovers and friends. This Moving Image Review comprises short...

...Nishant Shahani In this review, I consider recent works by José Esteban Muñoz ( Cruising Utopia ), Judith (Jack) Halberstam ( The Queer Art of Failure ), and Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed ( If Memory Serves ) as investments in the politics of queer futurity. Collectively, I analyze...

...D. A. Miller D. A. Miller's “Call for Papers” is an homage to Barbara Johnson on the occasion of a memorial service held for her in Berkeley. She was, for Miller, a “critic's critic”: in a posthumous response to her “Bringing Out D. A. Miller,” a review of his book Bringing Out Roland Barthes , he...

...David L. Eng This essay reviews two books, M. Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred and Gayatri Gopinath's Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures , both of which focus on the intersections of queer...

...Kevin Lamb; Patrick Singy As a field, the history of sexuality is often divided into Foucauldians and anti-Foucauldians. This essay, which reviews four recent contributions to the field, begins by showing that Michel Foucault's own methodology is ambiguous. Broad scholarly consensus rightly holds...

...Dana Heller This review essay considers three recent publications that collectively demonstrate developments in queer television studies. According to the author, these works provide circumspect progress narratives, tempered by awareness that LGBTQ visibility does not exist in any historical...

...Ana-Maurine Lara This review, a meditation, considers how two multigenre arts events, DASH (Austin, Texas; October 2009) and the Ghetto Biennale (Port-au-Prince, Haiti; December 2009), when considered side by side, present the material and theoretical terms for articulating black queer aesthetics...