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Terrorist assemblages / Jasbir K. Puar (2007)

Titre : Terrorist assemblages : homonationalism in queer times / Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jasbir K. Puar Editeur : Durham : Duke University Press Année de publication : 2007 Collection : Next wave Importance : 335 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8223-4094-2 Cote SEXSI : O.PUA.01

Female masculinity / Judith Halberstam (1998)

Titre : Female masculinity Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Judith Halberstam Editeur : Durham : Duke University Press Année de publication : 1998 Importance : 329 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8223-2226-9 Résumé : Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"--lesbians who pass as men--and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators. Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders. Cote SEXSI : O.HAL.01

A nervous state / Nancy Rose Hunt (2016)

Titre : A nervous state : violence, remedies, and reverie in Colonial Congo Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Nancy Rose Hunt, Auteur Editeur : Durham : Duke University Press Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 1 vol. (xviii, 353 pages) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8223-5946-3 Langues : Anglais Résumé : In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states—one "nervous," one biopolitical—the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness and the securitization of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies." By the time of Belgian Congo’s famed postwar developmentalist schemes, a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited where a notorious Leopoldian rubber company once enabled rape and mutilation. Hunt’s history bursts with layers of perceptibility and song, conveying everyday surfaces and daydreams of subalterns and colonials alike. Congolese endured and evaded forced labor and medical and security screening. Quick-witted, they stirred unease through healing, wonder, memory, and dance. This capacious medical history sheds light on Congolese sexual and musical economies, on practices of distraction, urbanity, and hedonism. Drawing on theoretical concepts from Georges Canguilhem, Georges Balandier, and Gaston Bachelard, Hunt provides a bold new framework for teasing out the complexities of colonial history. Cote SEXSI : R.HUN.01

Queer phenomenology / Sara Ahmed (2006)

Titre : Queer phenomenology : orientations, objects, others Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Sara Ahmed (1969-....), Auteur Editeur : Durham : Duke University Press Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 1 vol. ([IX]-223 p.) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8223-3861-1 Langues : Anglais Résumé : In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear—and those that do not—as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl’s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts—by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon—with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions. Cote SEXSI : R.AHM.01

Vulnerability in Resistance Vulnerability in Resistance / Judith Butler (2016)

Titre : Vulnerability in Resistance Vulnerability in Resistance Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Judith Butler (1956-....), Auteur Editeur : Durham : Duke University Press Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 336 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8223-6290-6 Langues : Anglais Résumé : Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in Resistance articulate an understanding of the role of vulnerability in practices of resistance. They consider how vulnerability is constructed, invoked, and mobilized within neoliberal discourse, the politics of war, resistance to authoritarian and securitarian power, in LGBTQI struggles, and in the resistance to occupation and colonial violence. The essays offer a feminist account of political agency by exploring occupy movements and street politics, informal groups at checkpoints and barricades, practices of self-defense, hunger strikes, transgressive enactments of solidarity and mourning, infrastructural mobilizations, and aesthetic and erotic interventions into public space that mobilize memory and expose forms of power. Pointing to possible strategies for a feminist politics of transversal engagements and suggesting a politics of bodily resistance that does not disavow forms of vulnerability, the contributors develop a new conception of embodiment and sociality within fields of contemporary power. Cote SEXSI : O.BUT.03

Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs / Kane Race (2009)

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