...Niels Van Doorn This essay examines what it means for queer subjects to cultivate a concern for their lives and the lives of others in the face of debilitating circumstances, when these efforts are maintained through religious practices and attachments. Taking cues from a small yet growing strand...

... at the University of California, Santa Cruz. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2006-010 books in brief 655 Enter the Queer Female Diasporic Subject Rajinder Dudrah Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Gayatri Gopinath...

...William Burgwinkle Duke University Press 2004 “THE FORM OF OUR DESIRE” Arnaut Daniel and the Homoerotic Subject in Dante’s Commedia William Burgwinkle Fame . . . without it man wastes his life away, leaving such traces of what he was on earth as smoke in the wind and foam upon...

...Eva Cherniavsky Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 REAL AGAIN Melodrama and the Subject of HIV/AIDS Eva Cherniavsky If, then, the homosexual is without a narrative future, it is because homosexuality is not reducible to the return of the same. —Paul Morrison, “End...

...Nick Davis Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies . Young Damon R. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . xii + 301 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 B o o k s i n B r i e f MOVING TARGETS In Search of a Liberal Sexual Subject Nick Davis Making...

...Seth Palmer Amid ongoing political instability, sarimbavy — same-sex-desiring and/or gender-expansive male-bodied persons — are increasingly rendered opportune subjects ripe for intervention across Madagascar by HIV prevention industries, homonationalist LGBT rights projects backed by the United...

..., female masculinity, and transgender subjectivities, whose implications are still shaping the direction of sexuality studies. In addition, attention paid to the shifting relations between gender and sex- uality has enabled a number of projects that seem more prominently organized under other...

...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...

... VARIANT SELVES OVER TIME Deciphering Trans and Same-­Sex-­Desiring Subjectivities in Contemporary Iran Roshanak Kheshti Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-­Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran Afsaneh Najmabadi Durham, NC: Duke University Press...

... 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...

... City, this article proposes the concept of tacit subjects to suggest that gay men and those close to them may be complicit in relegating information about a person's sexuality to the realm of what is tacit and/or understood. By stressing the structural and relational variables that people negotiate...

...Mark Johnson Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists; Taboo:Sex, Identity, and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,1996. xi + 315 pp. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper Don Kulick...

... largely overlooked in the recent attention to ACT UP’s legacy. This article asks what the history of ACT UP’s needle exchange might tell us not only about the history of HIV/AIDS and public health but also about the ideals of health and recovery in defining the subjects, forms, and historiography of queer...

... . BOOKS IN BRIEF 279 FREEDOM, MOVEMENT, SUBJECTIVITY Gil Hochberg Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility Hagar Kotef Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ix + 215 pp. Time and again we find the idea that stability, and with it the possi- bility...

...William Hughes Senses of the Subject . Butler Judith . New York : Fordham University Press , 2015 . viii + 217 pp . © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 640 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES NARRATING SENSATION BEFORE SUBJECTIVITY William Hughes...

... produce queer connections and contestations through the circulation of ostensibly universal subjects, be they the risk-bearing patient, the scholar, or the (biological) human. In South Africa, citational sexualities are performative of both constitutional and customary cultural spheres when juxtaposing...

... implications and its radical reconfigurations of subjectivity. Already implicit in Bersani's reading is a question about the limits of a certain psychoanalysis for reimagining subjectivities less agonistically forged than narrative traditions in the West, which Freud inherits, allow. Further, Bersani explores...

...” of lesbian and gay identities, individual female subjectivities are much more complex and layered. In Padang, West Sumatra tombois and their girlfriends, who identify themselves as masculine and feminine, access global circuits of queer knowledge and see themselves as part of a global community, but maintain...

...Ila Nagar; Debanuj DasGupta This article argues that religious mythologies and cultural narratives about the timelessness of gender diversity in South Asia frame the formation of the transgender subject of rights in India. The authors interrogate a verdict issued by the Supreme Court of India...

..., through which unpredictable constellations of desire, knowledge, and practice become concretized into limited models of sexual identity, is bound up in the way capital produces the subjects accommodated to its own needs. Thus “queer value” sutures together two domains too often understood to operate...