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  • Time Binds

    Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

    by Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse modernities
    Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation of time as she interprets an eclectic archive of queer literature, film, video, and art. She examines ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Global Divas

    Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

    by Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe, Martin F. Manalansan IV ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay identity is not teleological but fraught with fissures, Martin Manalansan IV describes how Filipino ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Scotch Verdict

    The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour"

    by Lillian Faderman ...
    In 1810, a Scottish student named Jane Cumming accused her school mistresses, Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, of having an affair in the presence of their students. Dame Helen Cumming Gordon, the wealthy and powerful grandmother of the accusing student, advised her friends to remove their daughters from the Drumsheugh boarding school. Within days, the institution was deserted and the two women were ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • In a Queer Time and Place

    Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    by Judith Halberstam ...
    Series Book 3 - Sexual Cultures
    In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Pedagogies of Crossing

    Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

    by M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Witch's Flight

    The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense

    by Kara Keeling, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”—not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such as film and television but as a set of processes involved in the production and reproduction of social ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Desiring China

    Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

    by Lisa Rofel, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is at the core of China’s contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Impossible Desires

    Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

    by Gayatri Gopinath, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Racial Castration

    Managing Masculinity in Asian America

    by David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.Eng juxtaposes ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Margaret Mead Made Me Gay

    Personal Essays, Public Ideas

    by Esther Newton, Michèle Aina Barale, Michael Moon, Jonathan Goldberg, Judith Halberstam, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Series series Series Q
    Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection covers a range of topics such as why we need more precise sexual vocabularies, why there have been ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Thiefing Sugar

    Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature

    by Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    In Thiefing Sugar, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book’s title from Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women is likened to the sweet and subversive act of cane cutters stealing sugar. The natural world is repeatedly ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • So Much Wasted

    Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

    by Patrick Anderson, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists ... Read more

    $22.29 USD