WEEK EIGHT: LESBIAN, GAY AND QUEER THEORY
Monday, February 24
- Jonathan Dollimore, "Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in
Wilde and Gide," in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds. Henry
Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (London: Routledge, 1993):
626-41.
- Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender Insubordination," in The Lesbian and
Gay Studies Reader: 307-20. (on reserve)
- "The Body You Want: Liz Kotz interviews Judith Butler," Artforum,
November 1992: 82-9. (handout)
- For a handout on this reading, click here.
- For students' responses, click here.
Wednesday, February 26
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: U of
California Press, 1990): 1-63. (on reserve)
- For a handout on this reading, click here.
- For students' responses, click here.
Friday, February 28
- Marjorie Garber, excerpts from Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Erotics of
Everyday Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996): "Introduction,"
"Bisexuality and Celebrity," and "The Return to Biology" (on reserve as
photocopy)
- For a handout on this reading, click here.
- For students' resposnes, click here.
WHAT NEXT?
revised October 1, 1997
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