Eve Sedgwick

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Series Q) by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , Michele Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg (1) Buy new: $22.95 $15.51 34 used & new from $13.21 (Visit the Most Gifted in Gay & Lesbian list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In...Read Full Story

Eve Sedgwick , queer theory founder, died on April 12, 2009, at the age of 58. Her books such as Epistemology of the Closet are considered groundbreaking works of literary theory. From an obituary at The Advocate : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a prominent theorist who is often cited as one of the founders of queer theory, died on April 12. She was 58. Sedgwick was reportedly diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, prompting her book A Dialogue on Love . Sedgwick taught English at several institutions...Read Full Story

Epistemology of the Closet Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers–including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde–Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became...Read Full Story

Epistemology of the Closet Review Epistemology of the Closet Overview Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers--including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde--Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century...Read Full Story

r Theory: Jagose, Seidman 165 1991, 1994a; McNay, 1991; Grosz, 1987, 1994c; Bartky, 1988). He is charged with concentrating upon heterosexual/homosexual hierarchies in sexuality while largely ignoring gender hierarchies, which cut across sexual divisions. It is suggested that he presents a history of the regulation of sex which largely ignores the ongoing deployment of women. Does this implicate Foucault himself in the reiteration of the existing regulatory practices of society regarding the...Read Full Story