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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2023
... science and colonial knowledge constitute sexual science as an amorphous object, one with a problematically vast reach that contributes to contemporary understandings of racialization and undergirding colonial infrastructures. And yet, they argue, sexual science is not something that can be wished away...
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Evolutionary Fantasy: The Sciences of Society and the Concept of the Prostitute
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GLQ (2021) 27 (2): 315–317.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Robert . New York : Vintage . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . [ 1990 ] 2008 . Epistemology of the Closet . Berkeley : University of California Press . BOOKS IN BRIEF 315 EVOLUTIONARY FANTASY: THE SCIENCES OF SOCIETY AND THE CONCEPT OF THE PROSTITUTE Shunyuan Zhang Indian Sex Life: Sexuality...
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Amoebic Narrative: Renee Gladman's Stories beyond Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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GLQ (2025) 31 (2): 231–256.
Published: 01 April 2025
...E. L. McCallum This essay poses a series of stories, drawn from Renee Gladman's Ravicka novels and accounts of social amoebas/slime molds in feminist science studies and science fiction. The author aims to respond to Sylvia Wynter's call for a new science from a queer vantage. Given Wynter's...
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INTERSEX PRACTICE, THEORY, AND ACTIVISM: A Roundtable Discussion
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GLQ (2009) 15 (2): 249–260.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Sarah M. Creighton; Julie A. Greenberg; Katrina Roen; Del LaGrace Volcano The present article seeks to bring together ideas from legal, medical, social science, artistic, and activist perspectives, through dialogue among the four authors. Sarah Creighton is a gynecologist working with women who...
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Pussy Ballistics and the Queer Appeal of Peristalsis, or Belly Dancing with Margaret Cho
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 491–520.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Rachel Lee In the 2003 concert Cho Revolution , Korean American stand-up comedian Margaret Cho mounts a critique of US empire that focuses on the Asian sex worker as logistical support for the military troops of commodity capitalism. Combining a science and technology studies approach...
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The Anatomy of Habit: Prison Sexology and the Scandal of Pederasty in Colonial India
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 43–60.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Rovel Sequeira This article examines the early twentieth-century Indian prison as a colonial sexological laboratory, arguing that it grounded a spatial form of sexual science tied to the science of confinement. Uncovering a crucial and previously unstudied Indian prison scandal, it shows how...
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Toward a Black Vernacular Sexology
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 27–42.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Aaron J. Stone By the turn of the twentieth century, race science, ethnology, and sexology had conspired to calcify the racial and sexual limits of the “human.” This article posits that contemporaneous African American novelists responded to the anti-Blackness of American sexual scientific...
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“The Horse in My Flesh”: Transpecies Performance and Affective Athleticism
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GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 487–514.
Published: 01 October 2013
... writing on art and sensation. It explores athleticism as a nexus for the performance's engagements with wider questions of animal-human (and particularly equine) interaction: gender, sexuality, and desire; biomedical science and hormone supplementation; and the aesthetic and political interventions...
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Being Cellular: Race, the Inhuman, and the Plasticity of Life
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GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 321–341.
Published: 01 June 2015
... species? And how might these practices of estrangement—queering—actually allow for a new ethical landscape? The essay explores the politics of science in relation to race and sex in historical context. Fantasies about the plasticity of life in speculative thought must consider the histories of social...
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“Let Me Bite You Again”: Vampiric Agency in Octavia Butler's Fledgling
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GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 561–584.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Elizabeth Lundberg This essay examines restrictions on and opportunities for agency in Fledgling , Octavia Butler's 2005 science fiction vampire novel. Reading agency through three relational modes—belonging, trauma, and consensual nonconsent—it argues that Fledgling helps us critically consider...
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Forces of Faith: Endurance, Flourishing, and the Queer Religious Subject
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GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 635–666.
Published: 01 October 2015
... of social science research that has investigated the role of religion and “spirituality” in queer people's everyday lives, I explore how the experience of a divine presence informs queer practices of self-formation and how religious faith becomes implicated in marginalized world-making projects. Drawing...
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Sissies, Loafers, and the Feebleminded: Disability and Nonheteronormativity in Rural White Eugenic Family Studies
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GLQ (2022) 28 (4): 515–540.
Published: 01 October 2022
... concerned about same-sex sexuality and other nonproductive sexualities among the unfit, despite their focus on the “science of better breeding.” This article first analyzes how eugenicists defined a desire for work as the counterpoint to perverse sexual desire. Next, it examines how state institutions used...
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The Secrets of a Loyalist Soul: Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality in Wartime China
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 61–76.
Published: 01 January 2023
... relationship between psychoanalysis and homosexuality in a non-Western context. The particular dynamics of Sino-Japanese relations advances a rethinking of the global history of sexual science. Second, the essay aims to elucidate the multiple currents of psychodynamic thinking in 1930s China. Dai integrated...
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Yiddish Sexology: A New Language for the History of Sexuality
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 77–90.
Published: 01 January 2023
... diverse transnational Jewish communities and reflecting varying engagements with the emergent science of sex. This article focuses on the work of one doctor, Leonard Landis, working at the turn of the twentieth century in New York, who was by far the most prolific (and controversial) author of Yiddish...
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Gay Genes in the Postgenomic Era: A Roundtable
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 109–128.
Published: 01 January 2023
... and 23andMe, the 2019 study concluded that “many loci with individually small effects,” which are spread across the entire genome, contribute in statistically significant but highly unreliable ways to an individual's sexual behavior. The study was thus greeted by geneticists, science journalists, and even...
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Early Gender Clinics, Transsexual Etiology, and the Racialized Family
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 January 2023
... and middle class, and many of them did not come to the gender clinics voluntarily; (2) understanding the prolonged, multigenerational temporality of Stoller's theory of transsexual etiology makes clear the connections between transsexual medicine, evolutionary and eugenic theory, and racial science; and (3...
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Beginning With Stigma
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GLQ (2019) 25 (1): 33–38.
Published: 01 January 2019
... “the deconstructive project” and argue that the turn to affect recalls the disavowed roots of the field in midcentury social science. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 stigma shame Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Erving Goffman performativity affect References Butler Judith . [1990] 1999...
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After Performativity, Beyond Custom: The Queerness of Biofinancial Personhood, Citational Sexualities, and Derivative Subjectivity in South Africa
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GLQ (2020) 26 (3): 503–527.
Published: 01 June 2020
... constitutional and customary cultural life are, like all performatives, first and foremost citational. Such citational sexualities are considered in clinical contexts where many Black gay women were coded as men who have sex with men in global health HIV science. In this vein, new forms of global biofinancial...
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Can I Be Frank with You?: Laverne Cox and the Historiographic Dramaturgy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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GLQ (2021) 27 (2): 233–252.
Published: 01 April 2021
... moments and queer coded pieces of popular culture; Gothic literature, classic Hollywood film, science fiction B movies, Glam Rock, and drag all mingle in the queer cultural collage that makes up the show’s dramaturgy. As such, the scope of Rocky Horror serves as a kind of performative queer archive...
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Impure Hopes: CRISPR and an HIV Cure
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GLQ (2022) 28 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 January 2022
... gene‐editing experiment in the United States that brought HIV‐positive veterans of ACT UP together with biotechnology entrepreneurs. After achieving promising results, a fickle market pushed gene‐editing enterprises away from HIV cure research. Building on earlier work about impure science...
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