Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

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index Abelove, Henry, 51–54, 57, 59, 60 academic form, 26, 37, 41, 43, 63, 177– 78n23 ACT UP, 2, 3, 6, 11, 35, 91–92, 98, 113, 138, 148, 157, 161, 183n43; and affect, 26, 28, 128–38, 141, 147, 152–53, 155, 166–67, 190n3; anniversary of, 27–28, 127–29; and comic frame, 117–20; erotics of, 134–35; heroic narrative, 132–33; and Kramer, Larry, 65, 69, 180–81n7; legacy of, 127–28, 130–31, 161; political funerals, 137–38; and women, 135–36 ACT UP Oral History Project, 136, 161 affect, 28, 112; in activism, 129–30, 132, 138–42, 145–47, 152–55, 166–67; the affective turn, 129, 190–91n14; definition of, 131. See also ACT UP: and affect; shame; pride affective history, 129–30; as rhetorical form, 128–30, 147–52, 153–55, 166–67 agency, 7–8, 31–34, 37–38, 40, 42–43, 56–60, 80, 82, 84, 86, 93, 110, 112, 117, 122, 131, 138–39; collective agency, 13–14, 146; definition of, 21–22, 164, 167; and queerness, 22– 25, 26–28, 48–49, 51, 89, 93, 125–26, 163–64, 167–69; and resistance, 12–18, 23–24, 58–59, 163; rhetorical, 6, 11–22, 25, 28, 61, 132, 146, 153, 173n31; and rhetorical form, 18–21, 26–27, 28, 61, 63–64, 67, 80–81, 87–89, 129–30, 133, 147–50, 153–54, 164–67 AIDS, 1, 138; activism, 2, 27, 35–37, 40, 46, 62, 65–77, 81–83, 88, 98, 127–29, 130–38, 150, 152, 160, 162; and lesbians , 94, 98–100 Arditi, Benjamin, 81, 88 assimilationism, 2, 4, 130, 139, 140, 142, 149, 150, 153; and anti-assimilationism, 3, 140, 142; critiques of, 52, 53, 140, 141, 150 audience, 12, 14, 20, 148; academic, 5, 9, 37, 58, 144; and humor, 117–18, 120– 21, 189n73; and manifestoes, 18–20, 22, 189n69; and polemics, 27, 68, 70, 72, 73, 75–84, 86 Barale, Michèle Aina, 52–54, 57, 59, 60 Bawer, Bruce, 69–70 Beemyn, Brett, 55–60, 179n52 Berlant, Lauren, 5, 30, 36, 42, 106 Bérubé, Allan, 4, 5, 134 Biesecker, Barbara, 15–16 Bitzer, Lloyd, 21 bodies, 2, 14, 27, 55, 59, 93, 102, 104, 105–106, 109, 112, 117, 131, 135–37, 138, 140–42, 144; bodily abstraction , 27, 93, 105, 112–14, 116–17, 125, 188n58, 166; body rhetorics, 113–14, 116; marked bodies, 103, 106, 110–15, 124–25. See also butch; gender: and visibility; lesbian chic; race boycotts, 95, 102 Brandt, Pamela Robin, 96–97, 101, 114 Bravmann, Scott, 148 Brouwer, Dan, 92, 103 Buchanan, Patrick, 83 208 index Dinshaw, Carolyn, 49–51, 58, 60 direct action: ACT UP, 130–31, 137; Gay Shame, 147; Lesbian Avengers, 94, 96, 100, 119; Twin Cities Avengers, 161 Duggan, Lisa, 3–5, 159, 160, 194n5 “Dyke Manifesto,” 116, 119, 189n69 Dyke March, 94–95, 103 Edelman, Lee, 22–23, 53, 83–84, 89, 183n43 Edley, Paige P., 9, 10 effectivity: definition of, 175n66; and polemics, 82, 87, 89, 165; and the politics of queer theory, 26, 40, 57; and rhetorical agency, 24, 87, 165 Eliason, Mickey, 55–60, 179n52 Eng, David L., 159 Escoffier, Jeffrey, 4, 36–37, 38, 40, 41, 50 essentialism, 3, 153; and agency, 16, 22, 150, 164; critiques of, 18, 19, 53; and identity, 3, 16, 18, 19, 39, 60 failure, 17, 19, 22, 24, 87–88, 166, 167, 169, 183n53, 189n69. See also queer theory: and failure feminism, 86, 110, 177–78n23, 189n74; and queer theory, 33, 35, 43–45, 54– 58, 60, 61–62 123–24, 164, 179n52; representations of, 92, 100–101; second–wave, 74, 79, 85 Ferguson, Roderick A., 106 Flannery, Kathryn Thomas, 73, 74, 76–81, 85, 87 Fierce Pussy, 103, 157 fire-eating, 92, 94, 114 Foucault, Michel, 35, 175–76n66; and polemics, 76–79, 85–86; and power, 15–16; and problematization, 33, 39, 164 Fuss, Diana, 41, 178n25 Bully Bloggers, 194n5 Burke, Kenneth, 20–21, 86, 87, 117, 118 Bush, George, 35, 65, 137 butch, 98, 104, 109, 115, 120, 140, 187n48. See also bodies; lesbian chic Butler, Judith, 14, 19, 24, 25, 31, 35, 50, 53, 54, 62 Campbell, John Angus, 77–78, 181n19 Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20 capitalism, 27, 46, 93, 106, 107, 160; and gender, 106, 109; queer critiques of, 1, 17, 142, 146. See also hetero–economy of desire Castiglia, Christopher, 149–50, 153, 154 Christiansen...