South Atlantic Quarterly: Introduction

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 431-432

  Halley, Janet ^a   Parker, Andrew ^a  

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EID: 65849220002     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2007-001     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. "It is commonly felt that Queer Theory is less an ongoing event than a periodisable moment, a relatively defunct agenda that can be safely syllabised and packaged for digestion through a shrink-wrapped assortment of contained debates (essentialism vs. social construction, the politics of outing, transgendering, etc.)." Stephen Shapiro, "Marx to the Rescue! Queer Theory and the Crisis of Prestige," New Formations, no. 53 (Summer 2004): 77-90, at 77.
2. See also David M. Halperin, "The Normalization of Queer Theory," Journal of Homosexuality 45 (2003): 339-43.
3. An archive of major early statements would surely include Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990)
4. and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (New York: Routledge, 1993);
5. Teresa de Lauretis, ed., "Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities," special issue, differences 3.2 (1991);
6. Jonathan Goldberg, ed., Queering the Renaissance (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994);
7. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemologyofthe Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) and Tendencies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993);
8. and Michael Warner, ed., Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
9. David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam, and Joseacuteacute Esteban Muntildtildoz, eds., "What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?" special issue, Social Text, no. 84-85 (Fall/Winter 2005).
10. See Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso, 2004)
11. and Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005);
12. Michael Warner, ed., American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Library of America, 1999)
13. and "Secularism," in Key Words of American Cultural Studies, ed. Bruce Burgert and Glenn Hendler (New York: New York University Press, forthcoming);
14. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003).
15. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1978), and vol. 2, The Use of Pleasure (1985).
16. See Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, 44-48.
17. See Leo Bersani, The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 35.
18. See, for example, Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004};
19. Carla Freccero, "Fuck the Future," GLQ 12.2(2006): 332-34;
20. Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Essays on Queer Temporality (forthcoming);
21. Jonathan Goldberg and Madhavi Menon, "Queering History," PMIA 120.5 (2005): 1608-17;
22. and Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York: New York University Press, 2005).
23. Erica Rand suggests here an alternative genealogy for queer theory in recalling that Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues (Ann Arbor, MI: Firebrand Books, 1993) appeared the same year as Tendencies and Bodies That Matter.
24. See Sigmund Freud, "On 'Wild' Psychoanalysis," in Wild Analysis, trans. Alan Bance (London: Penguin Books, 2002), 4-5,
25. as well as Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, trans. James Strachey (New York: Basic Books, 1962), xviii.
26. We refer of course to Judith Butler's essay "Against Proper Objects," in feminism meets queer theory, ed. Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997), 1-30 (originally this collection was a special issue of differences 6 [Summer/ Fall 1994]).
27. For one editor's reflections on why "taking a break" can be a good thing to do, see Janet Halley, Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006).
28. Gayle Rubin with Judith Butler, "Sexual Traffic: Interview," in feminism meets queer theory, 97.
29. Rubin reflects here on the work that led to her "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality," in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, ed. Carole S. Vance (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), 267-319-an essay that, while it does not label itself "queer," was nonetheless crucial to the development of queer theory.
30. See, for instance, Elizabeth A. Povinelli and George Chauncy, eds., "Thinking Sexuality Transnationally," special issue, GLQ) 5.4 (1999).
31. For one editor's contribution to this tradition in queer theory, see Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, and Patricia Yaeger, eds., Nationalisms and Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 1992).
32. See, for example, "The Antisocial Thesis in Queer Theory," PMLA 121.3 (May 2006): 819-28.
33. Sedgwick's essay originated as an October 20, 2005, presentation in Halley's Book Trouble series at Harvard Law School; the texts that Sedgwick read were Melanie Klein, "Love, Guilt, and Reparation," in Love, Guilt, and Reparation and Other Works (London: Virago, 1988),
34. and Meira Likierman, Melanie Klein: Her Work in Context (New York: Continuum, 2001).
35. Duncan Kennedy, "A Semiotics of Critique," Cardozo Law Review 22.1147 (2001): 1169-75.