After Sex?

by Halley, Janet; Parker, Andrew; Barale, Michele Aina; Goldberg, Jonathan; Moon, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780822349099
• ISBN10: 0822349094
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-28
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

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. InAfter Sex?prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the fieldrs"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 the creation of 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 theoretical 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 theoryrs"s engagement with questions of transnationality and globalization, and temporality and historical periodization. Meditating on the past and present of queer studies,After Sex?illuminates its future.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Genealogies of After
Queer Times	p. 17
Still After	p. 27
After Thoughts	p. 34
Glad to Be Unhappy	p. 45
Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex?	p. 55
Post Sex	p. 66
On Being Too Slow, Too Stupid, Too Soon
Affects and the (Anti-) Social
Starved	p. 79
Shame on You	p. 91
Ever After	p. 110
History, Negativity, and the Social
Queering Identities
What's Queer about Race?	p. 121
Queer Theory Addiction	p. 130
The Sense of Watching Tony Sleep	p. 142
Oklahobo	p. 151
Following Craig Womack's American Indian and Queer Studies
Lesbian and Gay after Queer
Public Feelings	p. 169
Queers-This	p. 180
After Male Sex	p. 192
Neither Freud nor Foucault?
Lonely	p. 207
When? Where? What?	p. 221
Queer Theory	p. 245
Postmortem
Disturbing Sexuality	p. 257
After Sex?!	p. 270
After After Sex?
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes	p. 283
Contributors	p. 303
Index	p. 307
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