...Catherine Lord A dedication is a speech act. Like saying, “I do thee wed,” to write, “I make you a gift of the words I have written” is to cause to be true the statement uttered, to tender oneself to another upon the material support that makes writing itself possible, and with it narrative, logic...

... of cattle upon marriage) among Zulus in the face of British attempts to control their social and political formations challenged the very heart of the settler project. As British settlers sought to create and define a “modern” sexuality predicated on a heteronormative family unit, polygamy became...

...Alexandra Juhasz; Ming-Yuen S. Ma Six graduate students working within media studies reflect upon their experiences and studies evidencing a shared attention to the “in-betweens” of identity formation, graduate school, disciplines, and professional practices. All seek and speak with a queer voice...

...Noor Al-Qasimi This essay delineates the contours of the United Arab Emirates’s biopolitical national project through the lens of queerness as a site of productive failure, rupture, and danger—one with the potential to disrupt the heteronormative notions of lineage and futurity upon which...

... such relationships may include. It also traces the evolution of Alarcón’s expression of his gay identity over the course of three decades from verse that centered upon loneliness and guilt, through a period of “liberation” poetry, and ultimately to a long and very productive period resulting in a body of work...

... as described in “Art and Answerability” ancl in “Author ancl Hero in Aesthetic Activity liere in a sinall room bordering upon the crowded street, by I)oarding a flight of fancy through Rakhtin’s texts to Dostoevsky’s Robok, via un- articulated reference to Joyce’s Ulysses. These texts are before me...

...” and “reasonableness” depends upon a presentation so that, strictly speaking, they do not come to exist apart from the presentation that bears them; to “bear” them, moreover, is not to be an accidental vehicle for their articulation but to constitute a precondition...

... and social identity.” The perspective that this constitutes a culture war was posited as a neutral viewpoint from which both combatants could learn (and presumably, drawing upon the authors’ expertise, refine their tactics). The press’s editor wanted a quick review from me because the authorial...

...: A Historical Study . Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1912 . Wilson , Thomas . A Discourse upon Usury…. 1572 . Ed. Tawney, R.H.. New York: Harcourt, 1925 . ”YOU MUST EAT MEN” THE SODOMITIC ECONOMY OF RENAISSANCE PATRONAGE Jody Greene 0 n September 8, 1993, a Virginia...

... of More Life within the structures that devastate their endurance (xxi). Chambers- Letson s communist party indexing the social, political, and economic valences of the word is not premised upon the social fictions of possession, equality, and exchange (9). Rather, the author seats Karl Marx...

... chuckle-points, however, to an impossibility that he sees in the Spaniard’s prediction. Unless the population of Europe were to be transferred to the New World, he implies, the Spaniards must reproduce; and, lacking women, that would seem to set a limit upon his prediction...

... in ever-decreasing quantities. Or else, we see masculinity as a set of protocols that should be agreed upon in advance. One of the issues I want to take up here is what model of masculinity is at stake in debates between butches and FTMs and what, if anything, separates butch mas- culinity from...

...: 1 -338; 5: 339-625. Freud , Sigmund . Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis. 1909 . The Standard Edition 10: 155 -257. Freud , Sigmund . On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love. 1912 . The Standard Edition 11: 179 -90. Freud , Sigmund...

... a meeting here, we ask that you hear what we have to say, and reflect upon it. We seek to challenge the belief that tourism is a benefit to the Hawaiian people and economy. We want to speak of the ways in which justice struggles for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender[ed] people are connected...

... 320 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES incidentally chance upon AIDS within larger conversations about boyfriends, queer bashing, and familial violence. The experimental documentary that emerged, Video Remains (55 mins., 2005), plays Jim’s ancient...

.... Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox . Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1991 . Cooley , Thomas McIntyre . A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union . 8th ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1927 . de Man...

... identity that can be achieved only by his literal flight from home and history. While “silence, exile, and cunning” may constitute Stephen’s arsenal of heroic rebellion, At Swim, Two Boys laments these practices as the necessary modes of survival forced upon the modern Irish gay...

... as their unique production of “subjectivities whose gender is not dictated by biological sex” (3). Throughout the book, Strongman uses the leitmotif of the cashew nut, which sits small and removable upon a large and fleshy fruit, as a metaphor for an African phenomenology in which gender and the other trappings...

... to oppose and to avoid any and all contact with organized religion” (224, 226). Smith’s comfort with this overstated assertion owes something to the current ubiquity (and popularity) of the emotionally charged image upon which the assertion relies-that of the self-hating snow queen whose life work...

... for inspiring Hollywood to jump “on the bandwagon” of the new wave of homosexually focused cinema.1 This connection may seem surprising to present-day historians. Swedish cinema has been regarded as bold but essentially heterosexual in spirit. Upon arrival in the United States, I Am Curious...