Late modernity’s binary intrigue of child sexuality/abuse is understood as a backlash phenomenon reactive to a general trans‐Atlantic crisis concerning the interlocking of kinship, religion, gender, and sexuality. Tellingly dissociated from 1980s gay liberation and recent encounters between queer theory and kinship studies, the child abuse theme articulates modernity’s guarded axiom of tabooed incest and its projected contemporary predicament “after the orgy”—after the proclaimed disarticulation of religion‐motivated, kin‐pivoted, reproductivist, and gender‐rigid socialities. “Child sexual abuse” illustrates a general situation of decompensated nostalgia: an increasingly imminent loss of the child’s vital otherness is counterproductively embattled by the late modern overproduction of its banal difference, its status as “minor.” Attempts to humanize, reform, or otherwise moderate incest’s current “survivalist” and commemorative regime of subjectivation, whether by means of ethical, empirical, historical, critical, legal, or therapeutic gestures, typically trigger the latter’s panicked empiricism. Accordingly, most “critical” interventions, from feminist sociology and anthropology to critical legal studies, have largely been collusive with the backlash: rather than appraising the radical precariousness of incest’s ethogram of avoidance in the face of late modernity’s dispossessing analytics and semiotics, they tend to feed its state of ontological vertigo and consequently hyperextended, manneristic forensics.
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In Boyhood Studies
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Repetitions of Desire
Queering the One Direction Fangirl
Hannah McCann and Clare Southerton
Girls’ Media Culture , ed. Mary Celeste Kearney , 1 – 14 . New York : Peter Lang . 10.3726/978-1-4539-0128-1 McCann , Hannah . 2016 . “ Epistemology of the Subject: Queer Theory's Challenge to Feminist Sociology .” Women's Studies Quarterly
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2019
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- 49–65 (17 total)
Miles away from Screwing?
Queer Gothic Girlhood in John Harding's Florence and Giles
Robyn Ollett
difference produced shifts in feminist scholarship that were nothing short of paradigmatic” (2013: 14). With the emergence of Queer theory, which became part of this process in the 1990s, Huffer notes its import as having two key axes: [It] can be seen
“Banal Apocalypse”
An Interview with Author Ta-wei Chi on the New Translation of The Membranes
Jane Chi Hyun Park and Ta-wei Chi
The Membranes . Chi: I was inspired by the simplified interpretation of Judith Butler and queer theory then. And some Julia Kristeva maybe. Those books were so mysterious and abstract to me and peers in the 1990s that we tended to imagine them to be
The Queer Death of the Hanged Dog
The 1677 Execution of Mary Higgs’ Mongrel
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey
identity of an individual but as disturbing identities and social organizations. See Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 17. 22 David Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (Oxford
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Pain and the Creeping Feeling
Skewed Girlhood in Two Graphic Novels by Åsa Grennvall
Maria Margareta Österholm
ethnicity and race, to challenge norms of academic writing, and as a decolonial method. Skewed theory is not meant to replace queer theory, but rather to grasp the intangible and unnameable aspects of not fitting into norms, including but not limited to
In European Comic Art
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- 46–65 (20 total)
Processual Aesthetics and Feminist Trouble
The Comics of Rikke Villadsen
Charlotte Johanne Fabricius
of her comics. Drawing on queer theory and materially oriented close reading, I argue that Villadsen utilises a ‘processual aesthetic’ to represent complex negotiations of feminism. I discuss Villadsen's depictions of transgressive sexuality, her use
In European Comic Art
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- 87–108 (22 total)
Freak Temporality
Female Adolescence in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Alison Sperling
. The emergence of the field of queer theory in the 1990s has therefore enabled more nuanced readings of McCullers’s work. Queer theory developed in part as a response to gay and lesbian studies, which did not account sufficiently for the wide range of
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- 88–103 (16 total)
Embracing a New Day
Exploring the Connections of Culture, Masculinities, Bodies, and Health for Gay Men through Photovoice
Phillip Joy, Matthew Numer, Sara F. L. Kirk, and Megan Aston
). Poststructuralism and queer theory reject the idea of a single universal truth or cause of health concerns, such as body dissatisfaction ( Agger 1991 ; Cheek 1999 ). These approaches used within an arts-based framework to guide the exploration of masculinities and
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Sep 2021
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Introduction
Dickens and Sex
Holly Furneaux and Anne Schwan
This collection explores the still underrepresented topics of sex, erotics and desire in the work of Charles Dickens. Contributors draw upon and suggest new points of convergence between a wide range of theoretical perspectives including cultural phenomenology, materialism, new historicism, critical race studies, feminist and queer theory. Analysis of a broad range of Dickens’s fiction, journalism and correspondence demonstrates Dickens’s sustained commitment to exploring a diverse range of sexual matters throughout his career.