...Robert J. Corber Duke University Press 2005 COLD WAR FEMME Lesbian Visibility in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All about Eve Robert J. Corber In the final scene of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1950 Academy Award–winning film All about Eve, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), the film’s manipulative...

...Laura Doan Topsy-Turvydom Gender Inversion, Sapphism, and the Great War Laura Doan In 1918 the travel writer and journalist Mrs. Ethel Alec-Tweedie (1867 – 1940) published Women and Soldiers, a tendentious extolment of British women’s wider participation in the public sphere in which...

...Tina Takemoto This essay explores the hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and queer sexuality for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Queer accounts of Japanese American wartime history are rare because of the atypical structure of the incarceration camps, which organized...

...Katherine Hauser Duke University Press 2005 GEORGE TOOKER, SURVEILLANCE, AND COLD WAR SEXUAL POLITICS Katherine Hauser The Subway, George Tooker’s sober painting from 1950, depicts a New York City subway station crowded with travelers fi lled, a reviewer noted, with “fear, anxiety...

... . ———. 2014a . “Sex and Sectarianism: The Legal Architecture of Lebanese Citizenship.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 34 , no. 2 : 279 – 93 . ———. 2014b . “Can Palestinian Men Be Victims? Gendering Israel's War on Gaza.” Jadaliyya July 23 . Morgensen...

...Libby Adler is associate professor of law at Northeastern University. Duke University Press 2005 Books in Brief CIVIL UNIONS AND CIVIC WARS Libby Adler The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller Ann Arbor: University...

...Judith Halberstam; C. Jacob Hale Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 BUTCH/FTM BORDER WARS A Note on Collaboration Judith Halberstam and C. Jacob Hale The following two articles were not written “together” in any simple way. Rather, we collaborated by dividing the labor...

...Judith Halberstam Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 TRANSGENDER BUTCH Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum Judith Halberstam In addition to the definitional and legal wars, there are less obvious forms of sexual political conflict which I call...

... articulates how Palestinian cultural politics were constructed as “politically queer” during the 1990s culture wars, which thereby contributed to the rise of homonormativity, increased visibility of leftist LGBTQ-Palestinian solidarity politics, and the development of Israeli pinkwashing as a political...

... of “dignity” to ways of living that he remains willing to stigmatize. Never mind that the AIDS epidemic hardly repre- sented a loss of “innocence.” Never mind that many lesbians, far from serving as models of homey monogamy, were at that time fighting the feminist sex wars...

... as a generator of counterarguments. Thus, the postwar emergence of American mod- ernist painting has been revised in terms of its entwinement with Cold War ideolo- gies and its instrumentalization in the construction of U.S. cultural prestige (Serge Guilbaut), its development in tandem with emergent forms...

...Oliver Coates Drone warfare is only the most prominent of a series of social and technological developments leading to remote and abstracted forms of injury and death. In response to Maya Mikdashi and Jasbir K. Puar’s connecting of queer theory with “permanent war” in “Queer Theory and Permanent...

...David S. Churchill This article grows out of a larger project on homophile internationalism that linked Europe and North America organizations, activists and writing during the post-war decades. More than just participating in a North Atlantic exchange, these homophile activists had a global vision...

...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...

... intersections of migration, work, and desire experienced by African/Haitian American women who came from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Richmond, California, to work in Kaiser's shipyards during World War II. Narrating erotic encounters between black female shipbuilders, the piece meditates on the changing...

... fundamentally and diversely gendered in that the organization of same-sex desire flowed from the varying performances of, and identifications with, masculinity and femininity. Beginning with World War II, however, object choice displaces gender as the defining feature of homosexuality. This essay disputes...

... market-induced cultural parallels to earlier decades of the twentieth century, before the post-Cold War intensification of globalizing processes. These studies confirm the importance of the market in global queering. They also reveal that international commonalities reflect emergent parallels among...