..., 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Stephen Guy-Bray The three books under review can be classified as queer theory on Renaissance subjects: Jonathan Goldberg's Seeds of Things , Holly Dugan's Ephemeral History of Perfume , and Will Stockton's Playing Dirty . The three books are very different: Goldberg's book considers...

...Jeffrey Jerome Cohen This review essay maps the convergence of disability studies and queer theory in three recent scholarly volumes. It asks what happens when the models of intercorporeal embodiment they advance meet recent work in materialism and ecological studies. Animacies: Biopolitics...

...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...

.... As Frantzen predicted so accurately, the study of men and masculinity has been central to these new movements. However, in this essay reviewing four contributions to the field, I argue that women and femininity have once again become sidelined. Increasingly the terminology of both the history of sexuality...

... essays, reviews, and interviews, and offers a broad sociopolitical and cultural context that frames the discussion and grounds it historically. Discussions of “queerness” (and sexual politics more extensively) are essential for our understandings of national movements, colonial oppression, new...

...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...