...Neville Hoad Duke University Press 2007 Neville Hoad Queer Theory Addiction After Sex 1: A Cigarette After Sex?” My first response is a simple and personal one: “A cigarette.” There could...

...Jeff Nunokawa Duke University Press 2007 Jeff Nunokawa Queer Theory: Postmortem Of course what came to be called “queer the- ory” didn’t begin with ACT UP, but man did it get a major jolt there. Anyone around...

... Department of Health, et al.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf . Warner Michael . 2000 . The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . AGAINST the DAY Queer Theory after “Marriage...

... and the transnationalization of queer theory. My argument concludes with a discussion of caste, stigma, and abjection through the lens of sex work, circling back to the queer hermeneutics of caste capitalism, and the ways in which this implicates questions surrounding processual hierarchies of the category of the human...

...Chandan Reddy This essay considers whether the achievement of “marriage equality” marks a distinct social and historical event and changed context, one that queer theory in particular must pause for, grapple with, and perhaps even rethink itself in relation to. It problematizes and interrogates...

... toward reconsideration of the death drive, not just how it is projected on gay men or directed at them but also how it is uniquely embodied and celebrated by them. The title of Lee Edelman's book No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive about sums it up, but Leo Bersani's work in Intimacies and Tim...

... by both philosophy and literary and cultural studies to the margins of psychology, has become central, with shame, compassion, envy, and sentimentality all requiring theorization and historical exploration. Queer theory continues to expand its purview, as a wider range of investigations and arguments...

... conversations in queer theory and critical indigenous studies, this essay offers some preliminary insights into the nature of sovereignty and the discourses of colonialism that continue to be informed by the presence of indigenous peoples within the philosophical precepts and ontological givens of code...

...-wing politics. In parallel, a specific vein of postcolonial theory has treated queer/LGBTI+ activism in the region as “alien,” “foreign,” and even as a Trojan horse of imperialism, an idea that has been taken up, again, by sections of the Left as well as right-wing authoritarian politicians. Adopting...

...- dict what our authors would make of this ques- tion, we had a variety of reasons for posing it in these terms. In the first place, we’d been hearing from some quarters that queer theory, if not already passé...

...—however ramshackle and dilapidated or procrustean they may be—queer theory is interested in shaking them up so we can see which ones aren’t fit for human habitation. The normaliza- tion strategy of gay rights is to merge so seamlessly and imperceptibly into mainstream institutions that it seems...

...Elizabeth Freeman Duke University Press 2007 Elizabeth Freeman Still After ​I’m still after queer theory. This might mean: even while queer theory has been pronounced over (can I get a refund I’m...

... often flourish in hostile silence, and this one differs only in that its curious progeny is the divide between academic queer theory and community-based queer activism. Psychoanaly­ sis can be brought to bear not for marriage coun­ seling, but rather to diagnose the symbolic seduc­ tions that keep...

... to this issue of SAQ were asked to organize their thoughts for this occasion, and under which I assume these pages will be appearing: “After Sex? On Writ- ing since Queer Theory.” At first glance...

...Erica Rand Duke University Press 2007 Erica Rand After Sex?! ​Queer Theory Here and There ​I never really thought of myself as a queer theo- rist. Until I got an invitation to contribute...

... the academic vogue of writing about sex is over, but it also hints, less chillingly, that the “end” of sex might not be a foregone conclusion, even if the subtitle, “On Writing since Queer Theory,” seems to put...

... for me only obscurely glimpsed in the Luce Irigaray books I’d found in the basement of the social studies library. Turn- ing up at graduate school and taking a queer theory class, I felt late. Like...

... as well as why this move is vital to understanding how sexual oppression intersects with other oppressions. In doing so, I draw the theoretical and political consequences of Rubin's concept for a radical politics of sexuality. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 benign variation queer theory...

... global politics and history manifest themselves at the level of lived affective experience, is bolstered by the role that queer theory has played in call- ing attention to the integral role of sexuality within public life. Moreover, our interest in negative affects draws inspiration from...

... Friend . New York : Penguin . Dickens Charles . 2003 . Bleak House . Edited by Bradbury Nicola . New York : Penguin . Edelman Lee . 2004 . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Eliot George . 1994 . Middlemarch...