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Queer Theory, Sex Work, and Foucault\u27s Unreason
During the late nineties, leading voices of the sex worker rights movement began to publicly question queer theoryâs virtual silence on the subject of prostitution and sex work. However, this attempt by sex workers to âcome out of the closetâ into the larger queer theoretical community has thus far failed to bring much attention to sex work as an explicitly queer issue. Refusing the obvious conclusionâthat queer theoryâs silence on sex work somehow proves its insignificance to this field of inquiryâI trace in Foucaultâs oeuvre signs of an alternate (albeit differently) queer genealogy of prostitution and sex work. Both challenging and responding to long-standing debates about prostitution within feminist theory, I offer a new queer genealogy of sex work that aims to move beyond the rigid oppositions that continue to divide theorists of sexuality and gender. Focusing specifically on History of Madness (1961), Discipline and Punish (1975), and History of Sexuality Volume I (1976), I make the case for an alternate genealogy of sex work that takes seriously both the historical construction of prostitution and the lived experience of contemporary sex workers
The Alignment Of Skills And Practice Via Active Reading Methodology
How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher training can facilitate this via modelling literacy pedagogy such as active reading strategies based upon authentic texts. This paper will discuss the skills and practice debate, and then illustrate the alignment of the two perspectives by reference to some specific active reading strategies devised around a restaurant menu
Probing the Locally Generated Even and Odd Order Nonlinearity in Y-Ba-Cu-O and Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O (2212) Microwave Resonators around TC
Spatial scanning of the synchronously generated 2nd and 3rd order
intermodulation distortion in superconducting resonators uncovers local
nonlinearity hot spots, and possible time reversal symmetry breaking, using a
simple probe fashioned from coaxial cable. It is clear that even and odd order
nonlinearity in these samples do not share the same physical origins, as their
temperature and static magnetic field dependences are quite different. 2nd
order intermodulation distortion (IMD) remains strong in these measurements as
the temperature continues to drop below TC to 77K even though the 3rd order
peaks near TC and becomes smaller at lower temperature as predicted by the
nonlinear Meissner effect. Both YBa2Cu3O7 and Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 resonators of the
same structure exhibit similar temperature dependence in the 2nd order with 2nd
order remaining high at lower temperature. The YBa2Cu3O7 sample has lower 3rd
order IMD with a pronounced peak at TC
Major Mergers Host the Most Luminous Red Quasars at z ~ 2: A Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR Study
We used the Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 near-infrared camera to image the
host galaxies of a sample of eleven luminous, dust-reddened quasars at z ~ 2 --
the peak epoch of black hole growth and star formation in the Universe -- to
test the merger-driven picture for the co-evolution of galaxies and their
nuclear black holes. The red quasars come from the FIRST+2MASS red quasar
survey and a newer, deeper, UKIDSS+FIRST sample. These dust-reddened quasars
are the most intrinsically luminous quasars in the Universe at all redshifts,
and may represent the dust-clearing transitional phase in the merger-driven
black hole growth scenario. Probing the host galaxies in rest-frame visible
light, the HST images reveal that 8/10 of these quasars have actively merging
hosts, while one source is reddened by an intervening lower redshift galaxy
along the line-of-sight. We study the morphological properties of the quasar
hosts using parametric Sersic fits as well as the non-parametric estimators
(Gini coefficient, M_{20} and asymmetry). Their properties are heterogeneous
but broadly consistent with the most extreme morphologies of local merging
systems such as Ultraluminous Infrared galaxies. The red quasars have a
luminosity range of log(L_bol) = 47.8 - 48.3 (erg/s) and the merger fraction of
their AGN hosts is consistent with merger-driven models of luminous AGN
activity at z=2, which supports the picture in which luminous quasars and
galaxies co-evolve through major mergers that trigger both star formation and
black hole growth.Comment: Submitted to ApJ. This version includes the response to the referee
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Making E.T. Perfectly Queer: The Alien Other and the Science Fiction of Sexual Difference
In the wake of E.T.\u27s 1982 debut, film critics Marina Heung and Vivian Sobchack established that the enduring appeal of E.T. inheres in the dissolution of the nuclear heterosexual family over the latter half of the twentieth century and the film\u27s âfairy taleâ stand-in for the âmythology of family relationsâ that Dana Cloud terms âconservative familialism.â As Carl Plantinga puts it, E.T. offers a âvirtual solution ⊠to [a] traumatic problem.â Despite this, however, E.T. remains for many an inconsolable tragedy. Approaching E.T. from the perspective of the queer child who grows âmore sideways than up,â in the real absence of a fairy tale solution to the traumatic problem of conservative familialism, I here seek to identify and celebrate E.T.\u27s âcomplex range of queernessâ that has until now remained largely closeted
Review, Other Dreams of Freedom: Religion, Sex, and Human Trafficking, by Yvonne C. Zimmerman
Review of Other Dreams of Freedom: Religion, Sex, and Human Trafficking, by Yvonne C. Zimmerman. Published May 2015 in The Journal of American Studies
Sex, Work, and the Feminist Erasure of Class
In this essay, I trace the contemporary feminist debate on prostitution to the period in which Catharine MacKinnon and Gayle Rubin deemed Marxism inadequate to the task of theorizing womenâs oppression. In seeking to surmount this perceived inadequacy, both thinkers counterposed alternative theoretical frameworks for analyzing womenâs oppression that nonetheless relied upon certain of Marxismâs central tenets. In a reliance that took the form of strikingly similar translations of Marxism foregrounding what came to be known as radical feminism (in the case of MacKinnon) and queer theory (in the case of Rubin), both theorists problematically render class as, respectively, gender and heterosexuality. Missing what an analysis of sex work as a site of the metamorphosis of the commodity has to tell us about the lived intersectionality of capitalism and patriarchy in individual and collective lives, feminists writing in MacKinnon and Rubinâs wake typically frame their discussions of sex workâincluding those that are ostensibly proâsex workerâin terms of gender and sexuality rather than class. I argue that this flattening of sex workâpredicated upon MacKinnonâs and Rubinâs translation of class as identity rather than as a dynamic, antagonistic relation between capital and laborâhas facilitated feminismâs and queer theoryâs unwitting complicity with capitalism, manifested in a lack of attention to womenâs privilege and oppression not as women and sexual minorities per se but as workers, commodities, and even capitalists
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