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Critical Inquiry

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 120-138

  Sinfield, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60950264058     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368000     Document Type: Review

References (63)

1. David M. Halperin, "How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality," GLQ 6 (Spring 2000): 90, 92; hereafter abbreviated "H."
2. See Bruce R. Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England (Chicago, 1991)
3. and George S. Rousseau, Perilous Enlightenment (Manchester, 1991), pp. 9-13.
4. See David F. Greenberg, The Construction of Homosexuality (Chicago, 1988);
5. Stephen O. Murray, "The 'Underdevelopment' of Modern/Gay Homosexuality in MesoAmerica," in Modern Homosexualities, ed. Ken Plummer (London, 1992), pp. 29-38;
6. and Gilbert H. Herdt, Same Sex, Different Cultures: Gays and Lesbians across Cultures (Boulder, Co., 1997).
7. See Kenneth Lewes, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality (London, 1989), pp. 35-42;
8. C. A. Tripp, The Homosexual Matrix (London, 1977), pp. 78-79;
9. and Kaja Silverman, Male Subjectivity at the Margins (New York, 1992), chap. 8 (Silverman's third category has two subdivisions).
10. Silverman, Male Subjectivity at the Margins, p. 362.
11. The terms "erotic dissidence," "dissident sexuality," and "sexual dissidence" are used for forbidden and/or stigmatized sex in Gayle S. Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality," in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Henry Abelove et al. (New York, 1993), pp. 18, 22, 23.
12. Sexual Dissidence is, of course, the title of Jonathan Dollimore's book (Oxford, 1991).
13. E. M. Forster, Maurice (Harmondsworth, 1972), p. 208.
14. See Sheila Jeffreys, "Butch and Femme: Now and Then," in Lesbian History Group, Not a Passing Phase (London, 1993), pp. 158-87.
15. Teresa de Lauretis, The Practice of Love (Bloomington, Ind., 1994), p. 240.
16. See Elizabeth Grosz, Space, Time, and Perversion (New York, 1995), chap. 10.
17. Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle (Plainfield, Vt., 1973), p. 130.
18. See also Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence, pp. 52-55.
19. Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender Insubordination," in Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. Diana Fuss (New York, 1991), p. 20.
20. Sigmund Freud, "On Narcissism: An Introduction" (1914), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. and ed. James Strachey, 24 vols. (London, 1953-74), 14:90. An editor's note directs readers to Freud's essay on Leonardo da Vinci.
21. Sigmund Freud, "On Narcissism: An Introduction" (1914), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Ibid., 14:87, 88-89.
22. Lewes, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality, p. 72.
23. See Michael Warner, "Homo-Narcissism; or, Heterosexuality," in Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism, ed. Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden (New York, 1990), pp. 190-206.
24. Freud, "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" (1921), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 18:105; hereafter abbreviated "GP."
25. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley, 1991), p. 62.
26. See also Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York, 1985).
27. Butler, Bodies That Matter (New York, 1993), p. 239.
28. John Fletcher, "Freud and His Uses: Psychoanalysis and Gay Theory," in Coming on Strong, ed. Simon Shepherd and Mick Wallis (London, 1989), p. 99.
29. See also Warner, "Homo-Narcissism; or, Heterosexuality," pp. 197-98.
30. Fletcher, "Freud and His Uses: Psychoanalysis and Gay Theory," p. 114.
31. See Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, pp. 86-90.
32. See Iain Morland, "Is Intersexuality Real?" Textual Practice 15 (Winter 2001): 527-47.
33. Judith Halberstam, "F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity," in The Lesbian Postmodern, ed. Laura Doan (New York, 1994), p. 212.
34. Don Kulick, "A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes," Social Text, nos. 52-53 (1997): 133-60.
35. Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (Ithaca, N.Y., 1993), p. 143; hereafter abbreviated S.
36. Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw (New York, 1994), p. 4.
37. See Jay Prosser, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (New York, 1998), chap. 5
38. and Alan Sinfield, "Transgender and Les/bi/gay Identities," in Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundaries, ed. David Alderson and Linda Anderson (Manchester, 2000).
39. See Butch/Femme, ed. Sally R. Munt (London, 1998), pp. 1, 41, 105, 143, 154, 159.
40. Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York, 1990), p. 123.
41. Halberstam, "F2M," p. 220.
42. Stephen Maddison, Fags, Hags, and Queer Sisters (London, 2000), pp. 191-92.
43. This topic is much disputed; see Zachary I. Nataf, Lesbians Talk Transgender (London, 1996), pp. 35-54.
44. Freud, "The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman" (1920), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 18:158.
45. See Maddison, Fags, Hags, and Queer Sisters, p. 12.
46. James Robert Baker, Tim and Pete (Harmondsworth, 1994), p. 38.
47. Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant (1968; New York, 1977), p. 56.
48. See Sinfield, Gay and After (London, 1998), chap. 3.
49. See Sinfield, "The Production of Gay and the Return of Power," in De-centring Sexualities, ed. Richard Phillips, Diane Watt, and David Shuttleton (London, 2000), pp. 21-36.
50. I have written about this in various places; see Sinfield, The Wilde Century (New York, 1994), chap. 6
51. and Out on Stage (New Haven, Conn., 1999), pp. 154-77.
52. Baker, Tim and Pete, pp. 35, 37, 39.
53. Felice Picano, Like People in History (New York, 1995), p. 50.
54. See Sinfield, Out on Stage, pp. 91-93, 136-41.
55. Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
56. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 7:144.
57. Esther Newton and Shirley Walton, "The Misunderstanding: Toward a More Precise Sexual Vocabulary," in Pleasure and Danger, ed. Carole S. Vance (London, 1984), p. 250.
58. Lynne Segal, Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure (London, 1994), p. 161.
59. Joan Riviere, "Womanliness as a Masquerade," in Formations of Fantasy, ed. Victor Burgin, James Donald, and Cora Kaplan (London, 1986), pp. 37-38.
60. Sedgwick, Tendencies (Durham, N.C., 1993), pp. 57-58.
61. See also Sedgwick's comments on Wilde's Dorian Gray, in Epistemology of the Closet, p. 160.
62. See Randolph Trumbach, "Sodomitical Assaults, Gender Role, and Sexual Development in Eighteenth-Century London," in The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe, ed. Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma (New York, 1989), pp. 407-32.
63. On Renaissance Florence, see Michael Rocke, Forbidden Friendships (New York, 1996).