I'm searching for the first part of the statement (I know that the second one is Sedgwick's very thesis !). Let's say : the idea that some people sharing the same sexual practices have more in comon, etc.
Thanks !
> From: princeptiffany@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:37:19 +0100
> Subject: [Foucault-L] Need reference: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
>
>
> Hi everyone,
> In "Revisiting Bodies and Pleasures", Judith Butler claims :
> "Queer theorist Eve
> Sedgwick suggests that it may be individuals who practice similar sorts of sex
> acts have more in common with one another than those who happen to be of the
> same gender. In this way, sexual alliances that cut across gender appear to take the place of
> gender-based solidarities, and queer activism, though indebted to feminism,
> takes its distances from feminism through this formulation that Foucault in
> part inspired."(Theory, Culture, Society, avril 1999, 16 (2): 11-20, URL <http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/16/2/11>)
> I guess Sedgwick's statement is hiding in her Epistemology of the closet, but I'm struggling to find the relevant passage.
> Is someone aware of such a passage ?
> Thank you in advance,
> Tiffany P.
>
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