After Sex?: On Writing since Queer Theory

Published by Duke University Press 2011

After Sex?

On Writing since Queer Theory

Edited by: Janet Halley and Andrew Parker
In collaboration with: Michèle Aina Barale , Jonathan Goldberg , Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

In the series Series Q

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393627

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About this book

Prominent participants in the development of queer theory explore the field in relation to their own intellectual itineraries, reflecting on its accomplishments, limitations, and critical potential.

Author / Editor information

Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy, also published by Duke University Press.

Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College and the editor of Jacques Rancière’s The Philosopher and His Poor, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“At a moment when many had begun to worry that queer theory was becoming little more than a widespread litany of dogmas and slogans, this volume arrives as a wonderful surprise: not only because it reminds us what a contribution the varied intellectual currents grouped together under that rubric have been making—and for nearly twenty years now—to the renewal of our intellectual life; but also, and more importantly, because it shows to what a degree this theoretical effervescence lives on, and how powerfully productive it still is in all its characteristically marvelous variety.”—Didier Eribon, author of Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

“[A] a kaleidoscopic collection that rotates around the personal-is-political-is-personal axis of denormativization. . . . Queer theory, in short, is alive and kicking. Having proliferated, branched out, and, so far, resisted ossification, it provides space for diversity and disagreement. Testifying to this, the contributions to After Sex? make an illuminating and, yes, entertaining read.”

-- Sylvia Mieszkowski GLQ

“[T]he value of After Sex? resides in its unwavering commitment to show how the nuances of queer theory aid in making it a powerful form of scholarship and politics. And this motley crew of interdisciplinary scholars reflects the exact kind of bricolage that Cultural Studies argues is productive. More importantly, this book insists that troubling the lenses through which we see the world is imperative if scholars ever want to make sense of a conjuncture that is so complexly intersectional.”

-- Raechel Tiffe Cultural Studies

“Together, the essays that make up this collection offer an engaging insight into the origins, development, expansiveness and potential problems of queer theory. After Sex? does not provide a straightforward, conclusive answer to its own ambiguous question, but then it would be somewhat queer – or, rather, unqueer – if it did.”

-- Forum for Modern Language Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction. JANET HALLEY AND ANDREW PARKER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Genealogies of After
Queer Times Carla Freccero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Still After Elizabeth Freeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
After Thoughts Jonathan Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Glad to Be Unhappy Joseph Litvak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex? Michael Moon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Post Sex On Being Too Slow, Too Stupid, Too Soon Kate Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Affects and the (Anti-)Social
Starved Lauren Berlant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Shame on You Leo Bersani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Ever After History, Negativity, and the Social Lee Edelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Queering Identities
What’s Queer about Race? Richard Thompson Ford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Queer Theory Addiction Neville Hoad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
The Sense of Watching Tony Sleep José Esteban Muñoz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Oklahobo Following Craig Womack’s American Indian and Queer Studies Bethany Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Lesbian and Gay after Queer
Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Queers This Heather Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
After Male Sex Richard Rambuss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Neither Freud nor Foucault?
Lonely Michael Cobb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
When? Where? What? Michael Lucey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Queer Theory Postmortem Jeff Nunokawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Disturbing Sexuality Elizabeth A. Povinelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
After Sex?! Erica Rand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
After After Sex?
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 329
Illustrations
- Other: 2 illustrations

eBook

Published: January 18, 2011
ISBN: 9780822393627