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Universalism and Partition: A Queer Theory
In: Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 117-140
ISSN: 1527-1986
This essay argues that the politics of partition encourages an ever specialized particularism that also undergirds identity politics. In such a world of particulars, we become what our identities proclaim us to be. While accepting that differences exist, universalism interrupts the ontological claim of particularity in order to posit a noncausal relation between what we do, think, eat, wear, profess, on the one hand, and what we are, on the other. This interruption of ontology leads also to an eruption of the many layers in which we live our lives—across sexes, genders, religions, and borders of all kinds. Arguing that differences are universal while ontological identities are not, this essay considers the role of Muslims in relation both to the Partition of India and the concentration camps at Auschwitz. In addition to making the case for a non-Enlightenment notion of universalism, this argument also expands the ambit of what we consider "queer." Partitions of all kinds are premised on a binary opposition of the norm and the antinorm. By suggesting that we reconsider the discourse of partition in relation to the lived reality of universalism, this essay makes the case for a queer universalism that haunts the seemingly rigid binaries of identitarian partitions.
Why I Do Not Speak Early Modern
In: Journal for early modern cultural studies: JEMCS ; official publication of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 162-165
ISSN: 1553-3786
A DAY AT THE SPA
In: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 577-579
ISSN: 1527-9375
SPURNING TELEOLOGY IN VENUS AND ADONIS
In: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 491-519
ISSN: 1527-9375
Do securely and insecurely attached children derive well‐being from different forms of gender identity?
In: Social development, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 91-108
ISSN: 1467-9507
AbstractWe examined whether attachment security moderates influences of two gender identity variables—felt gender typicality and felt pressure for gender differentiation—on preadolescents' well‐being. We tested two hypotheses. The first was that attachment security protects children from the distress that can stem from feeling gender atypical or from feeling pressure for gender conformity. The second was that secure children derive well‐being from believing they are similar to same‐gender peers whereas insecure children derive well‐being from believing it important to be different from other‐gender peers. We assessed children's attachment security, gender identity, and well‐being (self‐esteem, internalizing problems) in two successive years (N = 211, M initial age = 10.1 years). Results supported the second hypothesis. Attachment security may govern children's contingencies of well‐being.