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GLQ (2018) 24 (2-3): 267–289.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of a structure of lesbian literary and erotic practices that is useful for thinking about lesbian literary history as well as its future. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work on reparative reading and the school of queer optimism exemplified by José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia undergird the approach to Victorian...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 137–150.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Jia Tan Although scholars who work on Asia and those who work on indigenous studies have both critiqued the epistemic structure of queer studies for particularizing the non-West and thus supporting the domination of the West, they are hardly in dialogue. This article offers a rethinking of queer...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 457–481.
Published: 01 October 2011
... they spell out on a Ouija board. The poem also includes fragments of a second story, a retelling of a lost novel of Merrill's. In her essay Sedgwick talks about the poem's structure, likening the spacing of fragments of Ephraim's voice throughout the poem with the spacing of fragments of the lost novel...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (2-3): 361–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the concept of social death gives us information about the condition of the slave, it also helps inform the contours of the structural position of blackness well after the formal end of slavery. The essay focuses on the relationship between novel's protagonist, Joss, a black Scottish transman, and his son...
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GLQ (2009) 15 (1): 97–130.
Published: 01 January 2009
... are engaged in the process of meaning making—creating coherence both for themselves and for others. The present theorizing of (trans)gender identification has not fully explored the interaction among social expectations, individuals' attempts to be credible, and the structural limitations on intelligible...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (4): 473–507.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Gabriel Rosenberg The article explores the history and structure of American laws criminalizing sexual contact between humans and animals to demonstrate how the ecological conditions of late capitalism are remaking sexual taxonomies, practices, and identities. It notes that the majority...
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GLQ (2019) 25 (2): 223–255.
Published: 01 April 2019
... historical moments. Taking cues from Lee Edelman as well as recent Afro-pessimist scholarship, we approach the Couple not as a sociological category, but as a structure of being , and the Queer, not as an identitarian category but as an (non)ontological position . Drawing from a diverse archive of texts from...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (3): 391–418.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Calvin Warren This article argues that black sexuality presents a “problem for thought” within humanism and Afro-pessimism. Humanism continually attempts to integrate blackness into humanity, as a way to make suffering intelligible (structural adjustment); Afro-pessimism, rightly critiquing...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Benjamin Kahan; Greta LaFleur This introduction maps the ways in which sexual scientific thought circulated during the fin de siècle, tracing the interconnections between and breaks in the global circuits of sexological thought and how this circuitry continues to structure sexuality in the present...
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GLQ (2023) 29 (3): 353–385.
Published: 01 June 2023
... by conducting a content analysis of five newspapers, two magazines, a cartoon, an invitation to the ball, a video advertisement, and three oral history interviews. The Ball of La Laguna reveals that the class, race, and gender inequalities that have structured Peruvian society since colonial times also...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (3): 503–527.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of the performative’s structure as irreducibly contingent; its structural rule is the possibility of the failure of the performative, rather than its success. The cultural milieus of postapartheid South Africa are also spaces where financial instruments like derivatives, social theory, and pharmaceuticals actively...
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GLQ (2021) 27 (4): 499–523.
Published: 01 October 2021
...David Andrew Griffiths Abstract Heteronormativity structures biomedical justifications for continuing surgical interventions on infants’ genitals that are cosmetic and medically unnecessary. It would seem, then, that queer theory is uniquely suited to challenge this continuing practice...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 407–437.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., and historians. I further argue that a metaphorics of consumption undergirds historical archives and archival documents, as they are produced, ordered, read, and interpreted. By working through such complex affective archival engagements, we gain a more nuanced understanding of the erotic chains that structure...
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GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 491–520.
Published: 01 October 2014
... and a performance and literary studies method attentive to bodily rhetorics and patterns evident in assembled structures, I theorize Cho's praxis of peristaltic feminism. Inciting rhythmic waves of (commercial) terrorism that first register below the belt as belly-shaking laughter, the felt actions of the viscera...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 409–435.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., this essay attributes the taken-for-granted status of reductionism to queer theory's structuring opposition to ideas associated with sameness—among them normativity, reproduction, and the status quo. However, the essay suggests that the writing of John Rechy can help us reflect on why queer scholarship...
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GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 437–466.
Published: 01 June 2016
... these alternative forms, we identify the political work they perform. Analyzing such texts as a victim impact statement, speeches, the TV movie A Girl Like Me , and memorial websites, we contend that relational witnessing and testimony can reconfigure heteronormative forms of kinship and other societal structures...
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GLQ (2010) 16 (1-2): 191–206.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Sarah Dowling In this essay I read the long poem Tokinish by the Mohawk poet James Thomas Stevens. Stevens borrows passages of prose description from Roger Williams's 1643 Narragansett lexicon, A Key into the Language of America , as well as the earlier text's structure of facing columns of English...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 309–329.
Published: 01 June 2011
... families constituted extrabiologically (i.e., in activities of generating cultural forms) can function psychically and socially as family in the fullest sense, they deserve more attention in contemporary debates about the legal-political status—even the very identity—of nontraditional family structures...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 575–602.
Published: 01 October 2011
... context structured by U.S. colonialism and migration, the article contends with and resists the seductions of U.S. homonationalism while seeking to decolonize some of the critical assumptions informing the relation between the queer present and the queer(ed) past. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...
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GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of totality as frameworks for strenuously negating and moving beyond current conditions. By providing an expansive theoretical perspective on current and historical economic patterns, we hope to illuminate and advance our understanding of the complex structures of global capitalism. © 2011 by Duke...
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