The Explanation For Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity

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Index 197 Adorno, Theodor W., 148–19, 192n. 14 AIDS: and activism, 56–58, 66–67, 74, 105, 141–44, 161; and anal sex, 64–65, 105–7, 130; changing demographics, 55–56; and conspiracy theories, 143–44, 163–67, 169; cultural construction of, 15, 43, 65, 76, 78–79, 116, 118; as death wish, 55–57, 62, 64–65, 67–68, 75, 89; and the economic system, 132–33; and education, 150; and ersatz heterosexuality/virtual normality, 56–57, 74, 77–78, 80, 105; and genocide, 55, 141, 161–62; and Rock Hudson, 54–55; and Mapplethorpe, 84–85, 87–89; and the marriage plot, 56–58, 63, 67–68, 78, 80; medical definition of, 55; and metaphor, 64, 68; and narrative, 15, 55–58, 62–68, 72–73, 76–77, 80, 144; and newer therapies, 56–57, 65; and The Picture of Dorian Gray, 15, 43, 55, 58, 61, 63, 66, 84, 89; and promiscuity, 57, 62–65, 67, 76, 79–80, 105, 107, 132–33; and race, 163–64, 194n. 52; as “truth” of homosexuality, 15, 85, 88–89, 161–62; writing love letters to, 118 Allbright, Ivan, 46 allegory, 125 Althusser, Louis, 136, 161, 169 America, Miss, 117 America, Mr., 125, 130 American Studies (Merlis), 130 Anderopoulos, George J., 195n. 57 antisemitism, 146, 157, 160–61, 193n. 36 Arendt, Hannah, 67, 160–61 Aristotle, 23, 25–26, 31–32, 66 art market, 82, 85–87, 98 Atlas, Charles, 119–21, 123–25, 129 Auden, W. H., 76–77 Austen, Jane, 70, 107 Bakhtin, M. M., 28–30, 52, 72 Bally Total Fitness, 129 Barker, Francis, 23, 27, 110–11, 178n. 15 Barta, Tony, 168 Barthes, Roland, 14, 179n. 23 Bartlett, Neil, 177n. 3 Bataille, Georges, 79 Baudelaire, Charles, 46 Baudrillard, Jean, 85–86, 132–33, 167, 184–85n. 4 beauty pageants, 113, 115–17, 121 Benjamin, Walter, 18–19, 36–37, 46–48, 52, 177n. 5 Berger, John, 13 Berlin Sexual Institute, 156 Bernhardt, Sarah, 177n. 6 Bernheimer, Charles, 93 Bersani, Leo, 59, 62, 104–8, 182n. 13 Bildungsroman, 17, 25, 27, 56, 59, 72–73 bisexuality, 4–5, 7–9, 12, 153 Blanchot, Maurice, 46 Bleuel, Peter, 193n. 32 Bloom, Harold, 22–23 bodybuilding: as ars erotica, 15, 116; and beauty pageants, 113, 116, 121; and class, 117; vs. exercise/weight lifting, 116, 127; and gender, 114–15, 126–28, 137–38; and the mirror stage, 135–37, 139; and narrative , 15, 114; and the nineteenth-century novel, 25; and the phallic, 130, 132; and race, 127–28; and sexual orientation, 114, 117; and spectacle, 114–17, 128; and sport, 116–17 Bond, James, 6 bondage and discipline, 83, 94, 102, 104, 109, 112, 185n. 18. See also sadomasochism Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, 139 Bourdieu, Pierre, 94, 186n. 23 Bowers v. Hardwick, 142 Brand, Adolf, 156 Brooks, Peter, 64, 68 Bunker, Archie, 85 Butler, Judith, 139, 191n. 46 Cameron, Julia Margaret, 86 Cavell, Stanley, 47, 97 Chasseguet-Smirgel, Janine, 148 Churchill, Winston, 150 Cincinatti Arts Center, 82–83, 111 Civil Rights Act, 11 class: and the aesthetic, 72, 84, 94, 98, 126; and health, 43; and sexuality, 10, 39; and sport, 117; and subjectivity, 109; and writing, 117 Cocks, Geoffrey, 154, 193nn. 25, 26, 27 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 125 commodification, 132–34, 136–37. See also Marx, Karl communism, 149 Conan the Barbarian, 114–15 conspiracy theories, 143–44, 163–67, 169–70 counternarrative, 168–69 Craft, Christopher, 31, 179n. 27 Craig, Jenny, 129, 137 Crary, Jonathan, 42–43 Crimp, Douglas, 182n. 8, 184n. 37 Cybertrim, 129 Daily Chronicle, 44 Davis, Melody D., 92, 130, 184n. 3 Defense of Marriage Act, 13, 67–68 Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari, 129 Delsartre, François, 179n. 28 de Man, Paul, 64 Derrida, Jacques, 41, 86 Donzelot, Jacques, 71, 175n. 4 Douglas, Lord Alfred, 41 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 49 Dunlop, Carla, 128 Dunne, Dominick, 89 Dutton, Kenneth R., 127, 189n. 24, 190n. 34 Edelman, Lee, 5, 7, 45, 125, 176n. 24, 180n. 43, 194n. 43 Ehrenreich, Barbara, 157 Eliot, T. S., 35, 67 Ellis, Havelock, 69 Ellmann, Richard, 53 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 76 Eskridge, William, 58 Fanon, Frantz, 92, 172–73; on the “Negrophobic man,” 10–11; on sociogeny, 11 fascism: and the body, 132; Freudian reading of, 7–8, 145, 148–49; and gay activism , 141–42, 151; and homosexuality, 7–8, 141–43, 146–50, 156–58, 160, 171; as innovation, 162; and the maternal, 148; and the paternal, 148; and public...