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A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work-an
intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars
Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be
reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the
potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic
present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the
future, Jose Esteban Munoz argued that the here and now were not
enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the
queer political imagination. On the anniversary of its original
publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and
expand the project of Cruising Utopia, as well as a new foreword by
the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he
co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. This 10th anniversary
edition celebrates the lasting impact that Cruising Utopia has had
on the decade of queer of color critique that followed and
introduces a new generation of readers to a future not yet here.
Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value
of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically
concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization.
Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the meaning of
Jewishness in Freud's day, Ann Pellegrini indicates how "race" and
racialization are not incidental features of psychoanalysis or of
modern subjectivity, but are among the generative conditions of
both.
Performance Anxieties stages a series of playful encounters
between elite and popular performance texts--Freud meets Sarah
Bernhardt meets Sandra Bernhard; Joan Riviere's masquerading women
are refigured in relation to the hard female bodies in the film
Pumping Iron II: The Women; and the Terminator and Alien films. In
re-reading psychoanalysis alongside other performance texts,
Pellegrini unsettles relations between popular and elite,
performance and performative.
2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT Nonfiction
Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives
In ""You Can Tell Just by Looking"" three scholars and activists
come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths
about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and
life in America. Myths, such as "All Religions Condemn
Homosexuality" and "Transgender People Are Mentally Ill," have been
used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people.
Others, such as "Homosexuals Are Born That Way," have been embraced
by LGBT communities and their allies. In discussing and dispelling
these myths--including gay-positive ones--the authors challenge
readers to question their own beliefs and to grapple with the
complexities of what it means to be queer in the broadest social,
political, and cultural sense.
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant
intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia
and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of
Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in
queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie
Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much
interested in revealing -- outing -- "queer Jews" as it is in
exploring the complex social arrangements and processes through
which modern Jewish and homosexual identities emerged as traces of
each other during the last two hundred years.
At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious
fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful,
multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with
modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress. Bringing together
essays by scholars based in religious studies, gender and sexuality
studies, history, science studies, anthropology, and political
science, this volume challenges the binary conception of
"conservative" religion versus "progressive" secularism. With
essays addressing secularism in India, Iran, Turkey, Great Britain,
China, and the United States, this collection crucially complicates
the dominant narrative by showing that secularism is multifaceted.
How secularism is lived and experienced varies with its national,
regional, and religious context. The essays explore local
secularisms in relation to religious traditions ranging from Islam
to Judaism, Hinduism to Christianity. Several contributors
explicitly take up the way feminism has been implicated in the
dominant secularization story. Ultimately, by dislodging
secularism's connection to the single (and singular) progress
narrative, this volume seeks to open spaces for other possible
narratives about both secularism and religion-as well as for other
possible ways of inhabiting the contemporary world. Contributors:
Robert J. Baird, Andrew Davison, Tracy Fessenden, Janet R.
Jakobsen, Laura Levitt, Molly McGarry, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Taha
Parla, Geeta Patel, Ann Pellegrini, Tyler Roberts, Ranu Samantrai,
Banu Subramaniam, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Angela Zito
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an
intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars
Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be
reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the
potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic
present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the
future, José Esteban Muñoz argued that the here and now were not
enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the
queer political imagination. On the anniversary of its original
publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and
expand the project of Cruising Utopia, as well as a new foreword by
the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he
co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. This 10th anniversary
edition celebrates the lasting impact that Cruising Utopia has had
on the decade of queer of color critique that followed and
introduces a new generation of readers to a future not yet here.
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant
intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia
and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of
Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in
queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie
Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much
interested in revealing -- outing -- "queer Jews" as it is in
exploring the complex social arrangements and processes through
which modern Jewish and homosexual identities emerged as traces of
each other during the last two hundred years.
In this powerful and timely book, Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann
Pellegrini make a solid case for loving the sinner and the sin.
Rejecting both religious conservatives' arguments for sexual
regulation and liberal views that advocate tolerance, the authors
argue for and realistically envision true sexual and religious
freedom in this country. With a new preface addressing recent
events, "Love the Sin" provides activists and others with a strong
tool to use in their fight for freedom.
View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.In this dynamic
legal context the publication of Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann
Pellegrini''s Love the Sin offers a smart, but controversial,
intervention. -- Journal of the American Academy of
ReligionImportant... a fresh way to argue for gay rights and sexual
freedom.--Boston PhoenixLove the Sin is a progressive contribution
to discussions about sexual and religious freedom in a country
where we find less of both than most politicians, religious
thinkers, media moralists, and average Americans want to
admit.--Gay TodayA brilliant book, one that can move public
conversations about sexual, racial, and religious difference beyond
present assumptions and impasses. Love the Sin suggests that
religion can become the ground for sexual freedom rather than the
justification for sexual repression.--Margaret R. Miles, author of
Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the MoviesThis
impressive book provides analytical and strategic insights on the
central obstacle to gay and lesbian freedom today: sexuality''s
treatment by religion. The authors'' accessible voice, wide-ranging
and original synthesis, and deep knowledge make the experience of
reading this book a pleasure.--Urvashi Vaid, former director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy InstituteJakobsen and
Pellegrini argue convincingly that movements for ethnic, racial,
gender, and sexual justice would be well served by using the
paradigm of religious freedom instead of biological determinism to
make the case for social change. Love the Sin is required reading
for all the sinners to whom the title euphemistically refers, and
for everyone who dreams of a more just society.--RabbiRebecca
Alpert, author of Like Bread on the Seder PlateGives us vital
language to escape both the trap of toleration and the seduction of
assimilation. Not afraid to challenge the certainties of the
secular left on religion, nor willing to settle for a narrow
version of gay and lesbian rights, Love the Sin presents a new
vision of American sexual and religious freedom.--Laura Levitt,
Director of Jewish Studies, Temple UniversityAs ambitious, feisty,
and exciting as any new passion, Love the Sin takes its readers on
a compelling ride across the volatile landscape of religion and sex
in American public life. The authors not only provoke and
stimulate, guide and elucidate, but they redefine freedom and
democracy as values for our sex lives as well as our sexual
politics.--Lisa Duggan, coauthor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and
Political CultureJakobsen and Pellegrini do a nice job of showing
how the love-the-sinner/hate-the- sin tradition falls dramatically
short of the higher aspiration to tolerance.--Stephen Pomper,
Washington MonthlyThe authors of this short but succinct study
explore the connection between the traditions of Christianity and
the political and social regulation of sexuality in America.--
Library JournalLike any trumpet call to pull down the walls, this
book serves its purpose by giving the GLBT community a new focus
and even a renewed idealism.--The Gay & Lesbian ReviewWe cannot
afford to lose the battle for nonpartisan sex education in the
schools, sexual freedom for all citizens or a host of other
endangered human rights. Love the Sin is essential reading for
anyone who cares about these issues.--Women''s Review of BooksLove
the Sin is a book that is relevant for anyoneinterested in
sexology, religion, and politics. It has the potential to provoke
and important dialogue amoung religious institutions, politicians
at every level of government, community leader, and families about
what it means to live up to the American ideal. -- Journal of
History of SexualitySex. Religion. There is no denying that these
two subjects are among the most provocative in American public
life. Even the constitutional principle of church-state separation
seems to give way when it comes to sex: the Supreme Court draws on
theology as readily as it draws on cas
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