A Body, Undone
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Ruth Striegel Weissman
In addition to those listed above, I am particularly indebted to all the faculty and staff members of the English Department and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Wesleyan and to the staff of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. My students have for many decades declared that another and better world is possible, and have immeasurably lifted my spirits.
The members of my extended family, who love and support me:
Beth Crosby
Colin Crosby
Kirsten Crosby Blose
Matt Blose
Andrea Molina
Kathy Kauffman
Barbara Martin
J. D. Martin
Nancy Cassel Stein
NOTES
CHAPTER 1. YOUR PUNY, VULNERABLE SELF
1See Judith Butler, Precarious Life (New York: Verso, 2004).
2Maggie Nelson, “Morning En Route to the Hospital,” in Something Bright, Then Holes (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2007), 42.
3Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes–” (ca. 1862), Poetry Foundation, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177118, accessed July 3, 2015.
CHAPTER 3. BEWILDERMENT
1See Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005).
CHAPTER 4. FALLING INTO HELL
1Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), 4, 5.
2Elizabeth Grosz, The Volatile Body (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
CHAPTER 5. CARING AT THE CASH NEXUS
1Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011).
2Eduardo Porter, “Unionizing the Bottom of the Pay Scale,” New York Times, December 5, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/business/unionizing-at-the-low-end-of-the-pay-scale.html, accessed March 7, 2015.
3See Richard Kline, Cigarettes Are Sublime (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995).
4Langston Hughes, The Ways of White Folk (1934; New York: Vintage Classics, 1990).
5Premilla Nadasen and Tiffany Williams, Valuing Domestic Work, New Feminist Solutions, vol. 5 (New York: Barnard Center for Research on Women, 2009), http://bcrw.barnard.edu/wp-content/nfs/reports/NFS5-Valuing-Domestic-Work.pdf, accessed March 6, 2015.
CHAPTER 6. LOST IN SPACE
1See Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientation, Objects, Others (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
2See Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).
CHAPTER 7. MASCULINE, FEMININE, OR FOURTH OF JULY
1Ann Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
2S. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009), 20.
3See Gayle Salamon, The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Phenomenology (New York: NYU Press, forthcoming).
4Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues: A Novel (1993; New York: Alyson Books, 2003); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, twentieth anniversary edition (1993; New York: Routledge, 2014).
5“Katmandou,” Lost Womyn’s Space, http://lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com/2011/07/katmandou.html, accessed May 31, 2015.
6“Rocky Horror Picture Show Lyrics,” Metrolyrics, http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-time-warp-lyrics-rocky-horror-picture-show.html, accessed October 7, 2014.
CHAPTER 8. TIME HELD ME GREEN AND DYING
1“Drafting,” Exploratorium’s Science of Cycling, http://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/aerodynamics2.html, accessed March 1, 2013.
2Dylan Thomas, “Fern Hill” (1945), in The Poems of Dylan Thomas (New York: New Directions, 1952); available at Poets.org, http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/fern-hill, accessed July 20, 2015.
CHAPTER 10. VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED
1René Girard, Violence and the Sacred (1972; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), 28.
2Sigmund Freud, “The ‘Uncanny’” (1919), MIT.edu, http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf, 3, 1–2, accessed June 28, 2015.
3Philip Larkin, “This Be the Verse” (1971), in Collected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001); available at Poetry Foundation, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178055, accessed September 15, 2012.
CHAPTER 11. BOWELS LEAD
1“Defecation,” Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/155613/defecation, accessed November 29, 2014.
2W. H. Auden, “The Geography of the House” (1964), in Collected Poems (1976; London: Faber and Faber, 1994); available at Poem Hunter, http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-geography-of-the-house/, accessed July 20, 2015.
CHAPTER 12. I’M YOUR PHYSICAL LOVER
1Maggie Nelson, “Halo Over the Hospital,” in Something Bright, Then Holes (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2007), 46–47, 44–45.
2Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge, 2002), 197.
3“Ambiguous,” Oxford English Dictionary, vol. I, ed. J. A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 386.
4Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 198.
5Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993).
6Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (1979; New York: Penguin, 1993), 19.
CHAPTER 13. SUPPLY AND DEMAND
1William Blake, “A Poison Tree” (1794), Poetry Foundation, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175222, accessed February 2, 2013.
CHAPTER 14. SHAMELESS HUSSY, BABE D., MOXIE DOXIE
1“Doxy,” Oxford English Dictionary, vol. IV, ed. J. A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 1004.
2“Hussy,” Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, vol. I, ed. J.A.H. Murray et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), 1353.
CHAPTER 15. ANABAPTIST REFORMATIONS
1William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon” (1806), in The Complete Poetical Works (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888); available at Bartleby.com, http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww317.html, accessed February 28, 2012.
2David Harrington Watt, Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
3“Caritas,” Oxford English Dictionary, vol. II, ed. J. A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 900.
4Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, third edition (1848; New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), 253. Brontë is quoting Psalm 69, 1–2, in the voice of Jane, her first-person heroine-narrator.
CHAPTER 16. PRETTY, WITTY, AND GAY
1“Addict,” American Heritage Dictionary, ed. William Morris (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 15.
2Elaine Freedgood, The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 32.
CHAPTER 17. THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
1Elizabeth Ermarth, Realism and Consensus in the English Novel (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998).
2Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), 23, 323.
3Susan Stewart, “The Epistemology of the Horror Story,” Journal of American Folklore 95.375 (January–March 1982): 35–36.
4Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839), Literature Network, http://www.online-literature.com/poe/31/, accessed June 26, 2011.
5Otto Kernberg, “Some Observations on the Process of Mourning,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 91.3 (June 2010): 601–619.
CHAPTER 18. LIVING ON
1Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes–” (ca. 1862), Poetry Foundation, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177118, accessed July 3, 2015.
2Brian Phillips, “Out in the Great Alone,” Grantland (ESPN.com), May 5, 2013, ht
tp://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9175394/out-great-alone, accessed June 8, 2015.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christina Crosby, Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, is the author of The Ends of History: Victorians and “The Woman Question” and essays on other Victorian and feminist topics. She is broadly interested in queer and feminist work in disability studies and studies of embodiment. Her current project is exploring “my body electric” as both a rhetorically perverse catachresis and a literal neurological fact.
SEXUAL CULTURES
General Editors: Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers-Letson
Founding Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini
Titles in the series include the following:
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Samuel R. Delany
Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism
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Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces
Juana María Rodríguez
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini
Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture
Frances Négron-Muntaner
Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
Marlon Ross
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Judith Halberstam
Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality in the U.S.
Dwight A. McBride
God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
Michael Cobb
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Robert Reid-Pharr
The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Lázaro Lima
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Dana Luciano
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
José Esteban Muñoz
Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
Scott Herring
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination
Darieck Scott
Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries
Karen Tongson
Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
Martin Joseph Ponce
Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled
Michael Cobb
Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias
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Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law
Isaac West
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture
Vincent Woodard, Edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings
Juana María Rodríguez
Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism
Amber Jamilla Musser
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies
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Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
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Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Uri McMillan
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire
Hiram Pérez
Wedlocked: How African Americans and Gays Mistakenly Thought Marriage Would Set Them Free
Katherine Franke
A Body, Undone: Living On after Great Pain
Christina Crosby
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