Tomorrow's Parties

Coviello, Peter

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“…Sex in the nineteenth century does not necessarily fit the criteria of what we today recognize within the domain of the sexual and may be unrecognizable as such. 131 For Peter Coviello, sex was not yet understood to be a property of the self. It took shape as "a mode of relation, a style of affiliation," rather than as an aspect of individual identity.…”

Section: Sexual Differentiationmentioning

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“…Sex before sexuality manifested as a proliferating dynamic between bodies, whereas sexual discourse taxonomizes discrete individual qualities, including the gene. 144 By 1915, determinist notions of sexuality, race, and heredity were increasingly prominent, and both sexuality and race were classified as discrete, identifiable, and innate properties of the biological body itself. In chapter 5, I illuminate how W. E. B.…”

Section: Sexual Differentiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Biopolitics of Feeling

Schuller¹

2018

303

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In the early spring of 2013, I became suddenly and extravagantly ill. Each day I lost another basic faculty: the strength to lift a fork, the concentration to find and attach a file to an email, the short-term memory and physical stamina to speak with a friend. I thought I was dying, and that if I could hold on another three months, it would be more than enough time to finish this book-as clear a sign of impaired cognition as could be. While I had previously been feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the task of completing The Biopolitics of Feeling, when late-stage, neurological Lyme Disease struck it was this proj ect, and the community which has made it pos si ble, that first reminded me there was work I desperately wanted to continue. I am deeply grateful to the many people who have helped this proj ect become something to be proud of and who have helped me stabilize, and restabilize, during what is now a chronic, enduring illness. I thank Abena Busia and the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Women's and Gender Studies for arranging leave and for covering my courses during weeks and semesters I have been unable to teach: thanks in par tic u lar to

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Section: Sexual Differentiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sexual Differentiationmentioning

confidence: 99%