... be appropriated by the state, I contemplate how we might read differently to find alternative ways to analyze family-centered politics that enable us to “disidentify” with the state and delegitimate its monopoly on violence. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 “If I Turn into a Boy, I Don’t Think I Want...

... of transgender studies. Duke University Press 2010 The Time Has Come to Think about Gayle Rubin Susan Stryker Most readers of these pages are long familiar with Gayle Rubin’s fierce intel- lect, passion, and astounding depth and range of knowledge. Those as yet unfa- miliar with her work...

... lust as the causal factors in trafficking. Critiques of heterosexual intimacy, institutions, and economies are redirected to the exceptional and the sexual in contemporary campaigns against trafficking, despite the progressive elements of recent law. Duke University Press 2010 Thinking Trafficking...

...Lillian Faderman Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 ACTING “WOMAN” AND THINKING “MAN” The Ploys of Famous Female Inverts Lillian Faderman In the 1880s, early in her career, the American suffrage leader Anna Howard Shaw sported what was at that time a distinctly mannish...

... THINKING SEXUALITY TRANSNATIONALLY An Introduction Elizabeth A. Povinelli and George Chauncey Recently, there has been a small but discernible “transnational turn” in lesbian and gay studies and queer theory. Queer study groups on globalization have appeared at numerous universities...

... core, already queered because of its various relational contradictions. It is in view of this tension that Pierce develops the book's five chapters, proposing a productive intersection of queer studies and Latin American studies that moves away from essentialist paradigms. Chapter 1 thinks through...

... of The History of Sexuality . Translated by Hurley Robert . New York : Vintage . Books in Brief THINKING SEXUALITY AND DIS/ABILITY TOGETHER Lisa Diedrich Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xvii + 255...

...Neville Hoad This article investigates Gayle Rubin's 1984 article “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” as a piece of “traveling theory.” It takes a key concept, “hierarchies of sexual value,” and its representation in a famous graphic, “the charmed circle,” to see...

... and their communities’ vulnerability to AIDS” (203). Thinking through Morgensen’s ideas and evidence, we come to realize that GLBTQ2 AIDS orga- nizers laid the groundwork for recent theoretical and political developments in decolonization through their early on-­the-­ground work as well as their conceptual...

...Richard T. Rodríguez © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Reference Dean Tim Ruszczycky Steven Squires David , eds. 2014 . Porn Archives . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . M o v i n g I m a g e R e v i e w THINKING WITH PORN CLASSICS Richard T. Rodríguez...

... the pedagogical value of Mosquita y Mari for thinking about the complexities of sexuality, gender, class, race, and desire. Indeed, Guerrero's film—which refuses hard-and-fast categorizations of identity—proves generative for considering intimacy against the grain. In her compelling reading of Mosquita y Mari...

...Alice Jardine Duke University Press 2007 Thinking Wittig’s Differences “Or, Failing That, Invent” Alice Jardine The loss of Monique Wittig’s live voice and future texts in January 2003 made me deeply sad, especially so for those closest to her, who loved her. My own sad- ness has...

...Gayle Rubin This article reflects on the intellectual and political circumstances of the publication of Gayle Rubin's 1984 essay “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” In particular, the article considers the context of the feminist “sex wars” of the late 1970s...

...Steven Epstein The influence and staying power of Gayle Rubin's essay “Thinking Sex” reflect her success in taking the insights of empirical studies of sexuality—particularly, historically informed ethnography—and drawing out their intellectual and political implications so as to permit...

...Joanne Meyerowitz This article puts Gayle Rubin's 1984 article “Thinking Sex” in dialogue with Earl Lind's 1918 book Autobiography of an Androgyne . Rooted in different historical moments, the two works address distinct debates about the nature, politics, and ethics of sexual and gender variance...

...Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira This article aims to accompany the voyages of different theories by seeking to delineate the principal outlines of the encounter between queer theory and decolonial thinking. In a preliminary way, with no pretensions of reaching definitive answers, it formulates questions...

...Robert McRuer This article attempts to “think disability” using the theoretical framework laid out by Gayle Rubin in her 1984 essay “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” After considering how Rubin's essay was already arguably engaged with a disability politics...

...V Varun Chaudhry The author reflects here on a 2004 GLQ forum titled “Thinking Sex/Thinking Gender,” which focused on the relationships between gender, sex, and sexuality as intertwining and diverging categories of analysis. The essay contends specifically with the role of the category transgender...

... and Louise (1991), and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman (2014) help us think about how suicide functions as a sustaining fantasy and a queer narrative strategy. In each, the main character’s retreat into suicidal fantasy is not limiting but productive: it creates a space of protection for otherwise damaged...

...Gabby Benavente; Julian Gill-Peterson In “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory’s Evil Twin,” part of the 2004 forum “Thinking Sex/Thinking Gender,” Susan Stryker underlined a critical way in which trans people had become exceptionalized by a certain strand of queer theory, serving as figures...