Queering Freedom

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments Like most work in feminist theory, this book was written with and through many voices. While many of these are buried in the multiple pasts of my various educations, I would like to acknowledge the following for their ongoing support of me and my work, in many different ways: Anne Bowery, Jennifer Byrne, Helen Cordes, Jesse and Zoe Cordes Selbin, Carlos Cruz, Ruth Davis, Jan Dawson, Joseph Flay, Peter Gottschalk, Mark Hersh, Phil Hopkins, Craig Irvine, Kathleen Juhl, Mary Beth Mader, Thom McClendon , Helene Meyers, Sue Rivers, Shireen Roshanravan, Jimmy Smith, Cynthia Willett, Mark Winnubst, and Ton and Pat Winnubst. I am also grateful to the many students who have provoked, sustained, indulged, and sometimes endured our seminars together over the years. At Indiana University Press, I thank Dee Mortensen for her belief in this project through its various stages and Shoshanna Green for strengthening my prose. Finally, I have been fortunate enough to cultivate intellectual friendships that sustain me with immense generosity in what is otherwise solitary work. For their direct impact on the ideas and arguments of this book, I am particularly grateful to Michael Bray for his rare combination of incisive, speculative, and playful dialogue, not to mention his humor; to Amy Wendling and the gift of having her acumen, aesthetics, magnanimity, and laughter in the backyard while writing this book (some of the best examples are hers); to bell hooks for pushing me to find the courage and voice to write this book; to Eric Selbin for his unwavering generosity of both intellect and spirit that has buoyed me and my work for years; to Kimmy Dee Winnubst for the courage to be outrageously queer in all parts of her life, and for being one of the great blessings in my life; to the boyz, those companions who have always queered my world with play and pleasures; and to Jennifer Suchland for endless conversations, rhythms, explorations, and patience that never fail to stun me: stars above. x Acknowledgments An earlier version of chapter 2 was published in Philosophy and Social Criticism 30(1): 25–50 (New York: SAGE Publications). A portion of chapter 5 was published under the title “Make Yourself Useful!” in Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment, ed. Brian Seitz and Ron Scapp (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006). Queering Freedom ...