"...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."
Really? Taken literally this seems to be saying that: 1) straight men who
perform cunnilingus have more in common with lesbian women who do the same
than they have with straight and gay men who don't, 2) straight women who
perform fellatio have more in common with gay men who do so than with
straight women who don't, 3) straight men who like to fuck their
girlfriends up the ass have more in common with gay men who fuck other men.
This sounds pretty reductive to me. But surely Sedgwick must have something
else in mind, no?
Nate
> > 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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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Herman-Föge-Weg 11
37073 Göttingen
Germany
+49 (0) 551-4956-0
with one another than those who happen to be of the same gender."
Really? Taken literally this seems to be saying that: 1) straight men who
perform cunnilingus have more in common with lesbian women who do the same
than they have with straight and gay men who don't, 2) straight women who
perform fellatio have more in common with gay men who do so than with
straight women who don't, 3) straight men who like to fuck their
girlfriends up the ass have more in common with gay men who fuck other men.
This sounds pretty reductive to me. But surely Sedgwick must have something
else in mind, no?
Nate
> > 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.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Foucault-L mailing list
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
--
Dr. Nathaniel Roberts<http://www.mmg.mpg.de/departments/religious-diversity/scientific-staff/dr-nathaniel-roberts/>
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Herman-Föge-Weg 11
37073 Göttingen
Germany
+49 (0) 551-4956-0