Tendencies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822314219)

Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing.
The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites Tendencies is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun.

Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
ISBN-10: 0822314215
ISBN-13: 9780822314219
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/28/1993
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.03w x 0.89d