Table of Contents

Introduction / Janet Halley and Andrew Parker 1
Genealogies of After
Queer Times / Carla Freccero 17
Still After / Elizabeth Freeman 27
After Thoughts / Jonathan Goldberg 34
Glad to Be Unhappy / Joseph Litvak 45
Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex? / Michael Moon 55
Post Sex: On Being Too Slow, Too Stupid, Too Soon / Kate Thomas 66
Affects and the (Anti-)Social
Starved / Lauren Berlant 79
Shame on You / Leo Bersani 91
Ever After: History, Negativity, and the Social / Lee Edelman 110
Queering Identities
What's Queer about Race? / Richard Thompson Ford 121
Queer Theory Addiction / Neville Hoad 130
The Sense of Watching Tony Sleep / José Esteban Muñoz 142
Oklahobo: Following Craig Womack‘s American Indian and Queer Studies / Bethany Schneider 151
Lesbian and Gay after Queer
Public Feelings / Ann Cvetkovich 169
Queers ________ This / Heather Love 180
After Male Sex / Richard Rambuss 192
Neither Freud nor Foucault?
Lonely / Michael Cobb 207
When? Where? What? / Michael Lucey 221
Queer Theory: Postmortem / Jeff Nunokawa 245
Disturbing Sexuality / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 257
After Sex?! / Erica Rand 270
After After Sex?
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 283
Contibutors 303
Index 307

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Prominent participants in the development of queer theory explore the field in relation to their own intellectual itineraries, reflecting on its accomplishments, limitations, and critical potential

About the Author

Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy, also published by Duke University Press.

Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College and the editor of Jacques Rancière’s The Philosopher and His Poor, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"At a moment when many had begun to worry that queer theory was becoming little more than a widespread litany of dogmas and slogans, this volume arrives as a wonderful surprise: not only because it reminds us what a contribution the varied intellectual currents grouped together under that rubric have been making--and for nearly twenty years now--to the renewal of our intellectual life; but also, and more importantly, because it shows to what a degree this theoretical effervescence lives on, and how powerfully productive it still is in all its characteristically marvellous variety." Didier Eribon, author of Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory, edited by Janet Halley and Andrew Parker, is at once a timely and confusing addition to the conversation. In many ways, this volume highlights how fragmented queer theory has become and seems to ask if it is time to move on." - Dara Blumenthal, Culture Machine, April 2012