Product Description: Arguing that affect has a history, Ann Cvetkovich challenges both nineteenth- and twentieth-century claims that the expression of feeling is naturally or intrinsically liberating or reactionary. The central focus of Mixed Feelings is the Victorian sensation novel, the fad genre of the 1860s, whose controversial popularity marks an important moment in the history of mass culture...read more

Product Description: This book explores how discourses of the local, the particular, the everyday, and the situated are being transformed by new discourses of globalization and transnationalism, as used both by government and business and in critical academic discourse...read more

In a daring new work of cultural criticism, the author establishes a 'queer' approach to trauma, arguing that the definition of trauma should be expanded beyond the realm of catastrophe to encompass the ordinary and everyday, including those associate with butch-femme sex, AIDS activism, and other aspects of lesbian public cultures. (Social Science)

Product Description: This special issue of GLQ celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's groundbreaking essay, Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality. Credited with inaugurating the contemporary field of sexuality studies, Rubin's essay calls for an autonomous theory and politics specific to sexuality...read more