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 * Exam Question:**
 * What do patterns in the use of Foucault and Butler suggest about Queer Theory/Queer Studies over the last 10 years?**



1) [|Nelson, Cynthia. “Sexual Identities in ESL: Queer Theory and Classroom Inquiry]” 1999 • Mentioned in correlation between Butler’s performativity and discourse • Mentioned as a “tradition of how identity is made to seem natural” • Endnote: History of Sexuality • [pg 6] 2) [|Sumara, Dennis and Brent Davis. “Interrupting Heteronormativity: Toward a Queer Curriculum Theory]” 1999 • Summarized: History of Sexuality then Mentioned in conjunction with Sedgwick (Following Foucault, Sedgwick) • Cited & Mentioned again in conjunction with another work (Barbara Gowdy Mister Sandman) • Cited & Summarized a third time to frame how we understand sexuality (we must remember…) • Mentioned again in conjunction with Sedgwick • Cited: knowledge-making • Cited: Heterotopia is Summarized from Foucault • Endnote: History of Sexuality x 4; The Order of Things • [summarized on pg 2, early in the essay] 3) [|Jackson, Peter A. “An American Death in Bankok: The Murder of Darrell Berrigan and the Hybrid Origins of Gay Identity in 1960s Thailand”] 1999 • Cited—discourse of sexuality • Endnote: Jackson “Thai Research on Homosexuality and Transgenderism and the Cultural Limits of Foucaultian Analysis” • Endnote & endnote citation: History of Sexuality • [cited on pg 397, more than halfway through essay] 4) [|Halperin, David. “How to do the History of Male Homosexuality”] 2000 • Own article “Forgetting Foucault” is mentioned in conjunction with “How to do” • Endnote: Anthology Foucault and Writing of History • Quoted & Cited in Endnote: extensive explanation in which Foucault is compared to Kinsey, Sedgwick then mentioned • Endnote: History of Sexuality x3 and Discipline and Punish • [not mentioned until pg 29 of 37, better than halfway through the document] 5) [|Butler, Judith “Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality”] 2001 • Mentioned: politics of truth • Quoted & Cited—“What is Critique” • Mentioned (Foucault’s question) • Mentioned (defined by Foucault—desubjugation of subject) • Integrated • Endnote: “What is Critique” • [mentioned on pg 1 x3, pg 15] • [this year the article “Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality” by French historian Didier Eribon is also published] 6) [|Kunzel, Regina G. “Situating Sex: Prison Sexual Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States”] 2002 • Quoted: homosexuality is a species • Endnote: An Introduction to the History of Sexuality • Endnote: “Forgetting Foucault” Halperin • Endnote: Rosario, “Homosexual Bio-Histories” explains how prison culture fits within Foucault history • [quoted in first paragraph of essay] 7) [|Towle, Evan B. and Lynn M. Morgan. “Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the ‘Third Gender’ Concept”] 2002 • Mentioned in context to historiographic practices (well before Michel Foucault restored historiocity to the study of sexuality) • [mentioned pg 3] 8) [|White, Patrick. “Sex Education; or, How the Blind Became Heterosexual.]” 2003 • Quoted x2: repression hypothesis • Endnote: Olssen Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education • Endnote: Foucault “The Minimalist Self” & History of Sexuality • [pg 3] 9) [|Peraino, Judith A. “Listening to the Sirens: Music as Queer Ethical Practice.”] 2003 • Quoted & Cited: genealogy of desire as an ethical problem and technologies of the self • Mentioned (Foucault’s seemingly solipsistic conception of ethics stands in oppositionto the philosophical writings of Emmanuel Levinas) • Summary & Citation (Foucualt argues for a rigorous historicization of all truths and of humanity itself) • Integrated of Foucault’s methodologies and “care of the self” as compared to Levinas pg 3 • Quoted and Cited • Summary & Cited History of Sexuality Vol 2 • Summary of History of Sexuality Vol 2 & 3: care of self • Quotation and Summary of sadomasochism • Quoted and Cited • Integrated throughout entire essay • Endnote: Halperin Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Historiography • Endnote: Foucault “On the Genealogy of Ethics” from Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth x2 • Endnote: Foucault, “Technologies of the Self” • Endnote: Foucault, “The Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom” from Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth x4 • Endnote: Alexander Nehamas, “The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault” • Endnote: Nehamas, “Subject and Abject: The Examined Life of Michel Foucault” New Republic • Endnote: James Miller The Passion of Michel Foucault • Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault, Philosopher: Essays Translated from the French and German • Endnote: The Cambridge Companion to Foucault • The Use of Pleasure Vol 2 of The History of Sexuality x2 • Foucault, “Sexuality and Solitude” • [begins on pg 2 and is used extensively] 10) Cooper, Jan. “Queering the Contact Zone.” 2004 • 11) [|McRuer, Robert. “Composing Bodies; or, De-Compositon: Queer Theory, Disability Studies, and Alternative Corporealitities.”] 2004 • Cited • Summarizes how Foucault is used in Thornton (tucked away in an endnote) • Mentions Discipline and Punish • Endnote: mentions an interpretation of “indiscipline” 12) [|Butler, Paul. “Embracing AIDS: History, Identity, and Post-AIDS Discourse.”] 2004 • Summarized, Quoted & Cited: History of Sexuality and terms of homosexuality • Mentioned as influencing Butler • Endnote: History of Sexuality Vol 1 • Endnote: Halperin Saint Foucault: Toward a Gay Historiography • [pg 4] 13) [|Kulick, Don. “Four Hundred Thousand Swedish Perverts.”] 2005 • Quoted & Cited: case history of homosexuality • Mentioned in terms of sex clients as examples to teach Foucault • Mentioned: deployment of sexuality • Mentioned: (in the language that Foucault taught us to attend to closely) • Quoted & Cited: 19th century homosexual case study x3 • Mentioned (Foucault, as well as many feminists, taught us to regard critically) • Mentioned (by mentioning them, we advance Foucualt’s work of illuminating the process…) • Mentioned (I do not plan to wait for a Foucault of the future) • Endnote: conference @ Manchester University “Sexuality after Foucault” • Endnote: History of Sexuality Vol 1 x2 • Endnote: Foucault’s famous sodomite • [pg1] 14) [|Dinshaw, Carolyn. “The History of GLQ, Volume I: LGBTQ Studies, Censorship, and Other Transnational Problems.”] 2006 • Mentioned as critique and part of inquiry: (Their critiques of Michel Foucault, insisting that he imperialistic dimensions of modern power be reckoned with, form the deep background of my thinking about the racialization of history) • Endnote: History of Sexuality Vol 1 • Endnote: Halperin, Saint Foucault • Endnote: Stoler, Education and Desire: Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and the Colonial Order of Things • [pg 15] 15) [|Ahmed, Sara. “Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology.”] 2006 • Quoted and Cited: incitement to discourse • Endnote: History of Sexuality • [pg 17] 16) [|Boellstorff, Tom. “When Marriage Falls Queer Coincidences in Straight Time.]” 2007 • Quoted & Cited evolutive historicity • Quoted & Cited • Quoted & Cited at length: reverse discourse • Endnote: Discipline and Punish • An Introduction: History of Sexuality x2 • [pg 6]
 * Foucault:**

1999 & 2004 Cited most

1) [|Nelson, Cynthia. “Sexual Identities in ESL: Queer Theory and Classroom Inquiry]” 1999 • Mentioned in terms of sexualities as acts • Cited: performativity • Cited in footnote • Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity • “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories • [pg 6] 2) [|DeLuca, Kevin Michael. "Unruly Arguments: The Body Rhetoric of Earth First!, ACT UP, and Queer Nation."] 3) [|Halberstam, Judith “Oh Behave! Austin Powers and the Drag Kings”] 2001 • Quoted and Cited: (copy for which there is no original) • “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” • [pg 11] 4) [|White, Patrick. “Sex Education; or, How the Blind Became Heterosexual.]” 2003 • Mentioned with Wittig (heterosexual matrix) • Quoted and Cited with Wittig (heterosexual matrix) • Summarized and Cited • Summarized and Cited (citational practice) • Quoted and Cited • Quoted and Cited • Quoted (gender trouble) • Quoted at length • Integrated • Gender Trouble x8 • “Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification” Constructing Masculinity • [pg 2] 5) [|Sandahl, Carrie. “Queering the Crip or Cripping the Queer?: Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance.”] 2003 • Quoted and Cited for term queer Bodies that Matter • Quoted and Cited • Quoted and Cited • Mentioned • Mentioned (queer drag) • Quoted in conjunction with Dolan • Endnote: Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” x4 • [pg 3] 6) [|Cooper, Jan. “Queering the Contact Zone.”] 2004 • Mentioned with other theorists (Katz, Fuss, Sedgwick) • Mentioned: performance, but not quoted or cited • Endnote: Bodies that Matter • [pg ] 7) [|McRuer, Robert. “Composing Bodies; or, De-Compositon: Queer Theory, Disability Studies, and Alternative Corporealitities.”] 2004 • Quoted and Cited • Summarized • Mentioned (Butlerian point • Mentioned • Incorporated • [pg 5] 8) [|Butler, Paul. “Embracing AIDS: History, Identity, and Post-AIDS Discourse.”] 2004 • Quoted and Cited (homosexuals conflate with disease) • Quoted and Cited (figure of gay male has desire structured by death) • Quoted and Cited (homosexual as inverted bearer of death) • Quoted and Cited (performativity from Gender Trouble) called groundbreaking • Integrated (performativity analyzed in terms of AIDS discourse) • Summarized and Quoted at length (performativity) • Endnote: Bodies that Matter • Endnote: “Gender as Performance: An Interview with Judith Butler” • Endnote: “Judith Butler” • [pg 3] 9) [|Alexander, Jonathan. “Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body.”] 2005 • Quoted and Cited (performativity) • Summarized through scholarship (David Gauntlett, performativity) • Integration of Butler in other’s work (Elizabeth Flynn, Bornstein, Jay Prosser, Stryker quoted at length • Quoted and Cited for pedagogical application (I wanted to test with my students Butler’s notion of…) • Mentioned (performance) • Endnote: Butler, “Against Proper Objects” & interview, “Feminism by Any Other Name” • Endnote: Bodies that Matter & interview “Never Mind the Bollocks: Judith Butler on Transsexuality” • [pg 11] 10) [|Ahmed, Sara. “Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology.”] 2006 • Mentioned with other feminists (Iris Marion Young, Diprose, Grosz, Weiss) • Summarized and Cited (performativity; what bodies do are effects of histories, not originary) • Quoted and Cited (field of heterosexual objects) • Integrated speculation as to what field of heterosexual object might mean) • Cited (gay marriage) • Endnote: “Performative Acts and Gender Constitutions: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” x2 • Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection • Butler, “Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual” • [pg 3] 11) [|Boellstorff, Tom. “When Marriage Falls Queer Coincidences in Straight Time.]” 2007 • Quoted and Cited (lexicon of legitimization) • Mentioned with Warner (as straight time) • Quoted at length (same-sex marriage) • Endnote: “Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual” x3 • [pg 8] 12) [|Crowder, Diane Griffin. “From the Straight Mind to Queer Theory Implications for Political Movement.”] 2007 • Mentioned: interview where she claimed to be feminist, not more than queer or gay/lesbian thinker • Mentioned with other queer theorists (Jagose, Fuss) • Quoted and Cited (criticizing Wittig for her imperialistic use of term lesbian) • Quoted and Cited (criticism of Wittig) • Quoted and Cited (performativity) • Mentioned in timeline with Wittig (Wittig’s assertions came before Butler) • Mentioned in comparison to Wittig • Quoted and Cited (imagined possibilities for inhumans in heterosexism) • Mentioned (parenthetically) and cited • Cited as queer theorist with Jagose • Mentioned and cited • Summarized her own argument in Gender Trouble (Wittig proposes we do not play the game, instead of just playing by different rules) • Endnote: “Gender as Performance: An Interview with Judith Butler” • Bodies that Matter x6 • Gender Trouble & “Critically Queer” • Undoing Gender x4 • [pg 3]
 * Butler:**
 * Quoted and Cited (homosexuality as site of danger)
 * Quoted and Cited (parodic proliferation)
 * Endnote: //Gender Trouble//
 * [pg 9]

Heyday of Butler & performativity: 2003-2004 Butler is integrated into texts more often



Teresa de Lauretis—coined term queer theory at a conference in Santa Cruz • cited in David Halperin. "The Normalizing of Queer Theory." Journal of Homosexuality v.45, pp. 339-343 • cited in Jagose “Queer Theory” • de Lauretis abandoned the term because it became mainstream • Queer Theory grew due to: Butler Gender Trouble, Sedgwick Epistemology of the Closet and Halperin One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
 * Queer Theory:**

de Lauretis used in 10 year selection: Schlichter, Annette. “Queer at Last?: Straight Intellectuals and the Desire for Transgression”—quoted at length Crowder, Diane Griffin. “From the Straight Mind to Queer Theory Implications for Political Movement.”—quoted but not the term queer Ahmed, Sara. “Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology.”—distinction in who is and who becomes a lesbian quoted but not the term queer Boellstorff, Tom. “When Marriage Falls Queer Coincidences in Straight Time.”—cited in an endnote “Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities” Crowder, Diane Griffin. “From the Straight Mind to Queer Theory Implications for Political Movement.”—cited among other feminists who discuss construction of gender (“Fem/Les Scramble” & “Upping the Anti in Feminist Theory”



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