{"product_id":"tendencies-9780822314219","title":"Tendencies","description":"\u003ci\u003eTendencies\u003c\/i\u003e brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick \"the soft-spoken queen of gay studies\" (\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing.\u003cbr\u003eThe essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from \"Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl\" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites \u003ci\u003eTendencies\u003c\/i\u003e is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Her many publications include \u003ci\u003eA Dialogue On Love\u003c\/i\u003e (Beacon, 1999); \u003ci\u003eFat Art\/Thin Art \u003c\/i\u003e(Duke, 1994); \u003ci\u003eTendencies\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 1993); and \u003ci\u003eEpistemology of the Closet\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527349440786,"sku":"9780822314219","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a9f68c5f-bf9f-4e09-848b-579a57eea41e.jpg?v=1731299080","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tendencies-9780822314219","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}