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Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field's history, accomplishments, potential, and limitations. They consider the purpose of queer theory and the extent to which it is or is not defined by its engagement with sex and sexuality. For many of the contributors, a broad notion of sexuality is essential to queer thought. At the same time, some of them caution against creating an all-embracing idea of queerness, because it empties the term "queer" of meaning and assumes the universality of ideas developed in the North American academy. Some essays recall the political urgency of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when gay and lesbian activist and queer theory projects converged in response to the AIDS crisis. Other pieces exemplify more recent trends in queer critique, including the turn to affect and the debates surrounding the "antisocial thesis," which associates queerness with the repudiation of heteronormative forms of belonging. Contributors discuss queer theory's engagement with questions of transnationality and globalization, temporality and historical periodization. Meditating on the past and present of queer studies, After Sex? illuminates its future.
Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Michael Cobb, Ann Cvetkovich, Lee Edelman, Richard Thompson Ford, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Jonathan Goldberg, Janet Halley, Neville Hoad, Joseph Litvak, Heather Love, Michael Lucey, Michael Moon, Jose Esteban Munoz, Jeff Nunokawa, Andrew Parker, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Richard Rambuss, Erica Rand, Bethany Schneider, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Kate Thomas
Show moreSince queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field's history, accomplishments, potential, and limitations. They consider the purpose of queer theory and the extent to which it is or is not defined by its engagement with sex and sexuality. For many of the contributors, a broad notion of sexuality is essential to queer thought. At the same time, some of them caution against creating an all-embracing idea of queerness, because it empties the term "queer" of meaning and assumes the universality of ideas developed in the North American academy. Some essays recall the political urgency of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when gay and lesbian activist and queer theory projects converged in response to the AIDS crisis. Other pieces exemplify more recent trends in queer critique, including the turn to affect and the debates surrounding the "antisocial thesis," which associates queerness with the repudiation of heteronormative forms of belonging. Contributors discuss queer theory's engagement with questions of transnationality and globalization, temporality and historical periodization. Meditating on the past and present of queer studies, After Sex? illuminates its future.
Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Michael Cobb, Ann Cvetkovich, Lee Edelman, Richard Thompson Ford, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Jonathan Goldberg, Janet Halley, Neville Hoad, Joseph Litvak, Heather Love, Michael Lucey, Michael Moon, Jose Esteban Munoz, Jeff Nunokawa, Andrew Parker, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Richard Rambuss, Erica Rand, Bethany Schneider, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Kate Thomas
Show moreIntroduction / Janet Halley and Andrew Parker 1
Genealogies of After
Queer Times / Carla Freccero 17
Still After / Elizabeth Freeman 27
After Thoughts / Jonathan Goldberg 34
Glad to Be Unhappy / Joseph Litvak 45
Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex? / Michael Moon 55
Post Sex: On Being Too Slow, Too Stupid, Too Soon / Kate Thomas
66
Affects and the (Anti-)Social
Starved / Lauren Berlant 79
Shame on You / Leo Bersani 91
Ever After: History, Negativity, and the Social / Lee Edelman
110
Queering Identities
What's Queer about Race? / Richard Thompson Ford 121
Queer Theory Addiction / Neville Hoad 130
The Sense of Watching Tony Sleep / José Esteban Muñoz 142
Oklahobo: Following Craig Womack‘s American Indian and Queer
Studies / Bethany Schneider 151
Lesbian and Gay after Queer
Public Feelings / Ann Cvetkovich 169
Queers ________ This / Heather Love 180
After Male Sex / Richard Rambuss 192
Neither Freud nor Foucault?
Lonely / Michael Cobb 207
When? Where? What? / Michael Lucey 221
Queer Theory: Postmortem / Jeff Nunokawa 245
Disturbing Sexuality / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 257
After Sex?! / Erica Rand 270
After After Sex?
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes / Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick 283
Contibutors 303
Index 307
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
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.
"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 marvellous variety." Didier Eribon, author of Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory, edited by Janet Halley and Andrew Parker, is at once a timely and confusing addition to the conversation. In many ways, this volume highlights how fragmented queer theory has become and seems to ask if it is time to move on." - Dara Blumenthal, Culture Machine, April 2012
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