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... Holcomb Gary Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2009 . xiv + 288 pp . The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism Floyd Kevin Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . 270 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Review Coming to Terms...

.... Duke University Press 2009 Moving Image Review Coming to Terms with the In-Between A Graduate Student Forum on Being Queer in Media Studies Alexandra Juhasz and Ming-Yuen S. Ma For this Moving Image Review, we asked six, somewhat randomly selected, queer graduate students working...

...Ellen K. Feder In May 2006 the U.S. and European endocrinological societies published a consensus statement announcing a significant change in nomenclature. No longer would nineteenth-century variations on the term hermaphrodite , or the more newly introduced term intersex , be used in a medical...

... is (or becomes queer when it is) a force of tearing and symbolic rupture, queer theory teaches us that it is also a forging of sociabilities in this space of rupture. It also teaches us that queer collectivities are always made across and through social negativities. Theorizing queerness in terms of queer bonds...

...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...

... gender norms, this essay examines how transgressive identities can be revealed in discreet ways while respecting Zanzibari discursive norms and discusses the difference between widely used Swahili terms for transgressive men ( hanithi, basha , and shoga ) and the newer borrowed term magays . Some...

... presented as a positive new construction of fatherhood, a way to reclaim paternity on new emotional and social terms. This development represents a shift in the dynamics of gay assimilation: by drawing on the discourses of competitive individualism, these narratives reveal the complex politics of gay...

... activist and academic experiences. They argue that, in the last fifteen years, much progress has been made in terms of improving the medical and social attitudes toward people with intersex, but that significant work remains to be done to ensure that children born with sex anomalies will be treated...

...Dana Luciano; Mel Y. Chen “Queer Inhumanisms” from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist , and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands...

...Danai S. Mupotsa The wedding is often observed as performing a narrative closure, for instance, as a ritual that acts as a rite of passage to proper sex, or proper gendered and sexuated statuses framed in the terms of heteronormativity and homonormativity. The aims of this article are to sit beside...

...Laura Doan If we are serious about producing knowledge of the past in all its complexity—that is, as something we think that we know already as well as pastness in all its radical strangeness—it is vital to grasp the epistemological consequences in conceptualizing practices in oppositional terms...

... brings these two types of contact into relationship, so that the speaker's sexual and romantic experiences are echoed in the ethnographic commentary appropriated from Williams's text. I argue that Stevens uses these echoes to describe queer desire in colonial, proprietary terms, but that it is precisely...

... of identity politics in terms of group interests, for which the group substituted a “politics of identification” rooted in a marginalized sexual and gendered positioning. Focusing on the group's practices, and reading them for their political and theoretical implications, the essay examines the relation...

... on basketball in the first place. With Weir, the articulation of bigotry in terms of needing a “gender test” builds intentionally on the history of subjecting Olympic athletes competing as female to medical “sex verification” testing, while the use of the racialized category Russian, by or against him...

... variables, the essay addresses their intersection. The first part briefly outlines how queer collections, regardless of the stylistic and iconographic affiliations of particular objects, are constituted in “family resemblances” among objects that tend, overall, to inflect the entire array in terms...

..., look to make a popular intervention into contemporary spirituality, as well as, by implication, notions of the family, marriage, and sexuality. But whereas in Gibson's film the Passion is all divine death drive—all thanatos—Brown's novel reconceives Jesus's Passion in terms of eros, though on the most...

...Ana-Maurine Lara This review, a meditation, considers how two multigenre arts events, DASH (Austin, Texas; October 2009) and the Ghetto Biennale (Port-au-Prince, Haiti; December 2009), when considered side by side, present the material and theoretical terms for articulating black queer aesthetics...

... as both tolerant and limiting of queer desires, as well as resistant of the rumors of a broader cultural death. One of the case studies includes, to use Helen Hok-Sze Leung's term, “do-it-yourself” queer cultural projects that focus on reaching out to LGBT communities rather than to a wider mainstream...

...Michael Lucey This article proposes a contextualization of Marguerite Duras's 1983 book, The Malady of Death , along with some of her other writings and statements from around that time. These writings register her long-term intimate relationship with a much younger gay man whom she called Yann...

...-century Milwaukee, this essay adds to the emergent scholarship within queer studies that has challenged the previously dominant notion of what Judith Halberstam has termed metronormativity , wherein large metropolitan areas are assumed to provide queer subjects with opportunities that rural spaces...