...Jayna Brown 276 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES AGENCY AND SELF-­VOLITION IN BLACK FEMINIST PERFORMANCE ART Jayna Brown Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance Uri McMillan New York: New York...

...Antonia Chao Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography . Engebretsen Elisabeth L. . New York : Routledge , 2014 . xix + 194 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Books in Brief DIFFERENT NORMATIVITIES Beijing Lesbians’ Longing and Self-­Governance Antonia Chao...

... at the margins of dominant systems of religion, citizenship, and gender. Unlike those who identify exclusively with the category of transgender, thirunangais’ formations of self and subjecthood draw not only from modern and secular discourses such as those of human rights and identity politics but also from...

...Geertje Mak Duke University Press 2005 “SO WE MUST GO BEHIND EVEN WHAT THE MICROSCOPE CAN REVEAL” The Hermaphrodite’s “Self” in Medical Discourse at the Start of the Twentieth Century Geertje Mak On October 31, 1907, a Dr. König from Altona wrote to Franz Ludwig Von Neugebauer...

...Mikko Tuhkanen Duke University Press 2001 GLQ 7.4-03 Tuhkanen 10/16/01 5:14 PM Page 553 BINDING THE SELF Baldwin, Freud, and the Narrative of Subjectivity Mikko Tuhkanen PProtest novels translate the complexities of human life...

... in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2818576 Queer Self-­Fashioning in South Africa Brenna Munro How to Be a Real Gay: Gay Identities in Small Town South Africa Graeme Reid Scottsville, South Africa...

...David J. Getsy The recent exercise works of the performance and social media artist Amber Hawk Swanson explore extreme fitness as an allegory for self-realization. Her exaggerated engagement with such activities as CrossFit compels Hawk Swanson to treat herself as her own object to be both...

...Bobby Benedicto Drawing on the writings of Georges Bataille and Leo Bersani, this essay reexamines the long-held association of homosexuality with a radical erotics of death from the vantage of queer of color critique. While notions of suicidal ecstasy, self-shattering, and masochistic jouissance...

... and art houses. Israeli films have been thriving as part of “world cinema” by adopting a formula that Thomas Elsaesser has labeled “self-othering” or “self-exoticizing,” in which they expose local issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ultraorthodox Jewish communities, to the gaze...

... as an antitraditionalist, anticonservative mode of rethinking human biography in community. The queer astrological model of self-understanding and self-analysis has potential: it is not held in thrall to the perpetually outmoded biological paradigms of scientific “fact,” nor does it require cleaving to secularized...

... condition for queer self-definition. Queer bonds are forged where a resistance to homophobic regimes of knowledge and normalization is articulated with precarious, transitory zones of self-exemption from those regimes. Building on and recasting debates about homonormativity and homonationalism...

... with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such as national security, militarism, border control, colonial oppression, terrorism, secularism, religious conviction, and ethnonational self-determination. Indeed, as clearly demonstrated by the following essays, sexual politics and most specifically issues concerning...

... between sex and identity, safety and self-interest, that this discourse often assumes. Two of the books reviewed here specifically explore psychoanalytic concepts of perversion, which are often misogynistic and homophobic, but which have also been turned to queer ends. The essay ends with a discussion...

...Alexandra Juhasz In its time, at the Woman's Building, video played a central role in a unique feminist art education organized around the dangers of female representation and its associated pleasures of self-realization. Its collective video practices developed to acknowledge simultaneous points...

... in transnational queer studies: linking local sexual practice to global capital flows, disrupting static notions of self and sexual subjectivity, and showing the mobile and active processes of queer community production. By critically examining their use of method—not only anthropology's hallmark method...

... in the Caribbean region run by and for self-identified gay men—to see how these men have used the erotic to survive. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Chatting Back an Epidemic Caribbean Gay Men, HIV/AIDS, and the Uses of Erotic Subjectivity Lyndon K. Gill In the popular imagination...

... of affectively necessary labor—that is, the compulsory repetition of gender as performance might usefully be understood as a form of self-conscious labor that produces value, both material and social. It is the realm of affect that renders such performances to seem as though they are spontaneous, the reflection...

...Colin Carman There is a present need in contemporary queer theory to join forces with ecological criticism, specifically with the burgeoning field of animal studies, to critically assess the controversial life and writings of self-proclaimed “eco-warrior” Timothy Treadwell (1957 – 2003...

... collection of short stories, Throw It to the River (1993). Based in Toronto, Canada (on Lake Ontario), from 1988 to 2004, Rodriguez, a self-identified Filipino/a tomboy writer, addresses themes of migration, immigration, displacement, and class/poverty; the US-Marcos dictatorship; queer desire, love...

... familialism within the larger production of the American family in neoliberal terms. Arguing that the performance of “homonormativity” makes visible the dynamics of assimilation and material self-formation that are at work in all forms of advanced capitalist parenthood, the essay demonstrates how analyzing...