Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Vulnerability and Biopolitics Professor Katie E. Oliviero Postdoctoral Fellow, Feminist Legal Theory Project Emory School of Law This graduate seminar examines feminist and sociolegal perspectives on the ambivalent relationship between vulnerability, biopolitics and intersectionality. Scholars (Berlant, Butler, Fineman, Kirby, Turner, Satz) have recently advanced vulnerability as a theory and material condition that might address the gaps in human rights, equal protection and identitarian frameworks – oversights that intersectional feminist analysis has long critiqued. But biopolitics similarly depends upon circulating narratives of risk and protectionism that are essential for legitimating discrimination and violence. Readings will consider how intersectional, transnational and women of color feminist perspectives approach the ambivalent political ramifications of vulnerability. Critiques of equal protections, neoliberalism and human rights frameworks are considered. We will scrutinize the roles of materiality, discourse, embodiment, performance and legal institutions in constructing notions of the vulnerable subject and its others. In turn we will address the benefits and liabilities of claiming vulnerability as a political subjectivity requiring state remedies. Points of saturation include intersectional questions of: citizenship and migration; national security and rescue; global capitalism; queer futurity; dependency; intimacy; (post)humanity and animal rights. The course concludes by exploring how material and ontological experiences of vulnerability can be understood differently, via a range of desiring practices and institutional reforms that may remedy states of precariousness, or hold up the possibility of making them otherwise. Readings will include: Leila Abu‐Lughod, Georgio Agamben, Sara Ahmed, Gargi
Bhattacharyya, Jacqueline Bhabha, Lauren Berlant, Wendy Brown, Kristin Bumiller, Judith Butler, Shu Lea Cheang, Lee Edelman, Fatima El‐Tayeb, Martha Fineman, Michel Foucault, Inderpal Grewal, Judith Halberstam, Evelynn Hammonds, Kara Keeling, Eve Feder Kittay, José Esteban Muñoz, Martha Nussbaum, Adrian Piper, Jasbir Puar, Dorothy Roberts, Ani Satz, Susan Sontag, Diana Taylor, Bryan Turner, Carey Wolfe, Barbara Woodhouse. Week 1: Biopolitics and Vulnerability ‐ Butler: “Violence, Mourning, Politics” in Precarious Life ‐ Bryan S. Turner. “Vulnerability and Suffering” in Vulnerability and Human Rights ‐ Fineman: “The Vulnerable Subject” ‐ Agamben: “The Paradox of Sovereignty”; “Part II: Homo Sacer” ‐ Foucault: “Right of Death and Power over Life” Recommended: Peader Kirby Vulnerability and Violence: The Impact of Globalisation; Paul Farmer, “On Suffering and Structural Violence”; Nikolas Rose: “Biopolitics in 1
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the 21 century” “Politics and Life” ; Foucault Birth of Biopolitics, chapters 2, 9, 10; Butler: “Indefinite Detention” in Precarious Life Week 2: Woundedness , Pain, Affect, Visuality ‐ Elaine Scarry: “Introduction” in The Body in Pain ‐ Lauren Berlant: “The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy and Politics” ‐ Sara Ahmed: “The Contingency of Pain” in Cultural Politics of Emotion ‐ Susan Sontag: Chapters 4&5 in Regarding the Pain of Others ‐ Dorothy Apel, “On Looking: Lynching Photographs and Legacies of Lynching after 9/11”  Artifacts: Photographs – Without Sanctuary; Abu Ghraib Recommended: Wendy Brown “Wounded Attachments” in States of Injury; Sianne Ngai “Animatedness” in Ugly Feelings; Elaine Scarry, “The Structure of Torture”; Butler, “Torture and the Ethics of Photography: Thinking with Sontag” Week 3: Precarious Memory; Body; Archival Injury ‐ Moraga, “La Güera,” “It is the Poverty” “It Got Her Over” “You Call it ‘Amputation’” “For Amber” in Loving in the War Years ‐ Shu Lea Cheang, “Don’t want my orgasm simulated” ‐ Joseph Roach: Excerpts from “History, Memory and Performance” in Cities of the Dead, ‐ Diana Taylor, “Acts of Transfer”, “H.I.J.O.S and the DNA of Performance” “Lost in the Field of Vision” in The Archive and the Repertoire  Artifacts: Pena and Fusco; Selections of Benjamin; “Never Forget “National Rhetoric Recommended: Adrian Piper, “Passing for White, Passing for Black” ; David Simpson, 9/11 The Culture of Commemoration Week 4: Human Rights and Differences ‐ Hannah Arendt. Selections from The Human Condition ‐ Tobin Siebers, “Disability and the Right to Have Rights” ‐ Martin Chanock. 2000. “’Culture’ and Human Rights: Orientalising, Occidentalising
and Authenticity.”
‐ Inderpal Grewal, “Women’s Rights as Human Rights: The Transnational Production of Global Feminist Subjects” Transnational America ‐ Joy Ngozi Ezeilo. 2005. “Feminism and Human Rights as a Crossroads in Africa: Reconciling Universalism and Cultural Relativism.” ‐ Bryan Turner, “Reproductive and Sexual Rights”  Artifacts: Excerpts, Emmanuel’s Gift Week 5: Globalization, Neoliberalism, Violence 2
Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program ‐ Kristin Bumiller, How Neoliberalism Appropriated The Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence  Artifact: Señorita Extraviada Recommended: Michael Davidson, “Universal Design: the Work of Disability in the Age of Globalization” Concerto for the Left Hand; Rey Chow, “The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism”; Lisa Lowe,“The Politics of Capital in the Shadow of Citizenship”
Weeks 6: Belonging, Nation, Citizenship ‐ Mohanty, “Crafting Feminist Genealogies: On the Geography and Politics of Home, Nation, and Community” ‐ Linda Kerber, “The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other” ‐ Shane Phelan: “Structures of Strangeness: Bodies, Passions and Citizenship” in Sexual Strangers ‐ Mary E. Odem, “Subaltern Immigrants: Undocumented Workers and National Belonging in the United States” ‐ Jacqueline Bhabha, “The ‘Mere Fortuity of Birth’? Children, Mothers, Borders and the Meaning of Citizenship”  Artifact: Frozen River (Part I) Recommended histories and articles: Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, (Princeton UP, 2004); ’The Birth of a European Public”: Migration, Postnationality, and Race in the Uniting of Europe”; Rachel Ida Buff, Immigrant Rights in the Shadow of Citizenship; Saskia Sassen, “The
Repositioning of Citizenship: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics” Berkeley
Journal of Sociology 46(2002); Katherine Franke, “Becoming a Citizen: Reconstruction Era Regulation of African American Marriages” Yale Journal of the Humanities (Summer 1999); Lauren Berlant “The Theory of Infantile Citizenship” “The Face of America and the State of Emergency” in Queen of America Goes to Washington City; Phelan “Citizens and Strangers” Week 7: Migrations, Legibility, Labors ‐ Inderpal Grewal: “Gendering Refugees: New National/Transnational Subjects” ‐ Aiwa Ong, “A Biocartography: Maids, Neoslavery and NGOs” ‐ Limoncelli, Stephanie. “The Trouble With Trafficking: Conceptualizing Women’s Sexual Labor and Economic Human Rights” ‐ Michael Davidson, “Organs without Bodies: Transplant Narratives in the Global Market” Concerto for the Left Hand ‐ M.J. Alexander, “Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism” 3
Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program  Artifact: Frozen River (Part II)  How are nation, citizenship, migration, labor, and caretaking asserted in this film? How does this film reflect or critique intersectional feminist analysis? Week 8: Rescue and Security ‐ Gargi Bhattacharyya. Dangerous Brown Men: Exploiting Sex, Violence and
Feminism in the 'War on Terror' (London: Zed Press: 2008) Recommended:  Abu‐Lughod, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?: Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others”  Jasbir Puar, Selections from Terrorist Assemblages o “Homonationalism and Biopolitics,”  Elizabeth Bernstein, “Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns” Signs 2010 32(1) 45‐71.  Raznack, Sherene H. “From Pity to Respect: The Ableist Gaze and the Politics of Rescue” in Looking White People in the Eye, 56‐88.  Eunjung Kim and Michelle Jarman. “Modernity’s Rescue Mission: Postcolonial
Transactions of Disability and Sexuality.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 17,
no.1(Spring 2008):52-68.
Week 9: Child, Family and State: Welfare and Imprisoned Women ‐ Dorothy Roberts, selections from Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare ‐ Barbara Woodhouse, “A World Fit For Children is a World Fit for Everyone: Ecogenerism, Feminism, and Vulnerability”  Artifact: Sentence for Two Week 10: Intimacy, Kinship, Dependency ‐ Martha Fineman “The Sexual Family” in Feminism and Queer Legal Theory ‐ Anna Marie Smith, “From Paternafare to Marriage Promotion: Sexual Regulation and Welfare Reform” in Feminist and Queer Legal Theory ‐ Robyn Wiegman, “Intimate Publics: Race, Property and Personhood” ‐ Fineman “Dependency and Social Debt: Cracking the Foundational Myths” ‐ Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg, “Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship” ‐ Eve Feder Kittay, “Not My Way, Sesha; Your Way, Slowly: A Personal Narrative” Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency” Recommended: Eva Feder Kittay, “Policy and a Public Ethic of Care”; Elizabeth Povinelli: “Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality” Week 11: Caregiving and the Labors that Unbind 4
Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program ‐ Laura T. Kessler, “Transgressive Caregiving” ‐ Zahra Meghani and Lisa Eckenwiler, “Care for the Caregivers?: Transnational Justice And Undocumented Non‐Citizen Care Workers” ‐ Anne Guevarra. 2006. “Managing ‘Vulnerabilities’ and ‘Empowering’ Migrant
Filipina Workers.”
‐ Lynn May Rivas. “Invisible Labors: Caring for the Independent Person.”  Artifact: Maquilapolis Week 12: Futurity ‐ Sara Ahmed, “In the Name of Love” In The Cultural Politics of Emotion ‐ Lee Edelman, “The Future is Kids Stuff” In No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive ‐ Stockton, “Growing Sideways or Why Children Appear to Get Queerer in the 20th Century” ‐ Kara Keeling, “Music from the World Tomorrow’: Poetry from the Future and the (Im)possible Politics of Afrofuturism” Recommended: José Esteban Muñoz, “Feeling Utopia” and other selections from Queer Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009);Lauren Berlant, “America, Fat, the Fetus” Queen of America Goes to Washington City; Jennifer Doyle, “Blind Spots and Failed Performance: Abortion, Feminism and Queer Theory” (2009); Nina Power, “Non‐Reproductive Futurism: Rancière's rational equality against Edelman's body apolitic” Borderlands, 1‐16 (2009).  Artifact: The Aggressives Week 13: Animality Rights – Disabling Human Normativity ‐ Angela Harris “Should People of Color Support Animal Rights” ‐ Mackinnon, “Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights” ‐ Nussbaum, “Beyond ‘Compassion and Humanity’: Justice for Nonhuman Animals” ‐ Ani Satz “Animals as Vulnerable Subjects: Beyond Interest – Convergence, Hierarchy and Property” ‐ Carey Wolfe, “Learning From Temple Grandin: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject” Recommended: Cora Diamond “Eating Meat and Eating People”; David Wolfson and Mariann Sullivan “Foxes in the Hen House: Animals, Agribusiness, and the Law: A Modern American Fable” both in Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions Week 14: Desiring Otherwise; Queering the Horizon 5
Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program ‐ Wendy Brown, “Moralism as Anti‐Politics” ‐ Evelynn Hammonds, “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” ‐ Ann Cvetkovich, “Trauma and Touch: Butch‐Femme Sexualities” ‐ Halberstam, Judith. “Animating Revolt/Revolting Animation: Penguin Love, Doll Sex and the Spectacle of the Queer Nonhuman” ‐ Gayatri Gopinath “Impossible Desires” Recommended: Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity Course Reader Bibliography Butler, Judith. “Violence, Mourning, Politics” in Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso, 2004. 19‐49. Fineman, Martha Albertson. "The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition." Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 20, no. 1 (2008), 1‐23. Agamben, Gorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller‐Roazan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 15‐29; 71‐86; 91‐
103 Foucault, Michel. “Right of Death and Power over Life.” A History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. 3 vols. Vol. 1. New York: Vintage Books, 1978. 35‐59. Turner, Bryan. “ Vulnerablity and Suffering.” In Vulnerability and Human Rights. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 25‐45. Farmer, Paul. "On Suffering and Structural Violence ‐ Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era.” Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 29‐50; 270‐
277. Scarry, Elaine. “Introduction.” The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. 3‐23; 327‐328. Ahmed, Sara. “The Contingency of Pain.” The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge, 2004. 20‐41. Berlant, Lauren. "The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics." In Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century, edited by Elisabeth Bronfen and Misha Kavka, 126‐60. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 126‐160. Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Apel, Dora. "On Looking: Lynching Photographs and Legacies of Lynching after 9/11." American Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2003): 457‐78. 6
Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program Moraga, Cherríe. “La Güera,” “It is the Poverty” “It Got Her Over” “You Call it ‘Amputation’” “For Amber” in Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios. 2nd ed. Vol. 6. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000. 42‐51, 54‐
56; 61‐64; 74‐76. Cheang, Shu Lea. "Don't Want My Orgasm Simulated." In Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, edited by Ella Shohat. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 308‐312. Roach, Joseph. Cities of the Dead: Circum­Atlantic Performance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 1‐7, 17‐31. Taylor, Diana. “Acts of Transfer”, “H.I.J.O.S and the DNA of Performance” “Lost in the Field of Vision” in The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 1‐33; 161‐
189; 237‐265. Arendt, Hannah. “Vita Activa and the Human Condition.” In The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 7‐11. Tobin Siebers, “Disability and the Right to Have Rights,” In Disability Theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 176‐186. Grewal, Inderpal. “Women’s Rights as Human Rights: The Transnational Production of Global Feminist Subjects.” In Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 121‐157. Martin Chanock. “’Culture’ and Human Rights: Orientalising, Occidentalising and
Authenticity.” Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative Essays on the
Politics of Rights and Culture, ed. Mahmood Mamdani. New York: St. Martin’s
Press, 2000. 15-36.
Joy Ngozi Ezeilo. “Feminism and Human Rights as a Crossroads in Africa: Reconciling Universalism and Cultural Relativism.” Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization. Edited by Marguerite Waller and Silvia Marcos. New York: Palgrave, 2005. 231‐252. Turner, Bryan. “Reproductive and Sexual Rights.” In Vulnerability and Human Rights. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 69‐88. Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Grafting Feminist Genealogies: On the Geography and Politics of Home, Nation and Community." In Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, edited by Ella Shohat. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 485‐500. 7
Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program Kerber, Linda. "The Stateless as the Citizen's Other." In Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender, edited by Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 76‐123. Phelan, Shane. “Structures of Strangeness: Bodies, Passions and Citizenship.” In Sexual Strangers: Gays, Lesbians and Dilemmas of Citizenship. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 36‐62. Odem, Mary E. . "Subaltern Immigrants: Undocumented Workers and National Belonging in the United States." Interventions 10, no. 3 (2008): 359‐80. Bhabha, Jacqueline. "The 'Mere Fortuity of Birth'? Children, Mothers, Borders and the Meaning of Citizenship." In Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders and Gender, edited by Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 187‐227. Grewal, Inderpal. "Gendering Refugees: New National/Transnational Subjects." In Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 158‐95. Ong, Aihwa. "A Bio‐Cartography: Maids, Neoslavery, and Ngos." In Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender, edited by Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 157‐84. Limoncelli, Stephanie. "The Trouble with Trafficking: Conceptualizing Women’s Sexual Labor and Economic Human Rights." Women's Studies International Forum 32 (2009): 261‐69. Davidson, Michael. "Organs without Bodies: Transplant Narratives in the Global Market." In Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Unversity Press, 2008, 197‐221. Alexander, M. Jacqui. "Imperial Desire/Sexual Utopias: White Gay Capital and Transnational Tourism” (" In Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, edited by Ella Shohat. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 281‐305 Ahmed, Sara. “In the Name of Love” The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge, 2004. 122‐143. Edelman, Lee. “The Future is Kids Stuff.” In No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 1‐32. Stockton, Kathryn. “Growing Sideways or Why Children Appear to Get Queerer in the 20th Century.” In The Queer Child or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 1‐57; 245‐251. 8
Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program Keeling, Kara. "Looking for M‐ Queer Temporarlity, Black Political Possibility, and Poetry from the Future." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 15, no. 4 (2009): 565‐82. Muñoz, José Esteban. “Feeling Utopia.’ In Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 1‐18 Woodhouse, Barbara. “A World Fit For Children is a World Fit for Everyone: Ecogenerism, Feminism, and Vulnerability.” Houston Law Review 46(2009): 817‐863 Fineman, Martha Albertson. "The Sexual Family." In Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encouters, Uncomfortable Conversations, edited by Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson and Adam P. Romero. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 45‐63. Wiegman, Robyn. "Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood." American Literature 74, no. 4 (2002): 860‐85. Fineman, Martha Albertson. "Dependency and Social Debt: Cracking the Foundational Myths." In The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency. New York: New Press, 2004. 31‐54. Rapp, Rayna, and Faye Ginsburg. "Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship." Public Culture 13, no. 3 (2001): 533‐56. Kittay, Eva Feder. "Not My Way, Sesha; Your Way, Slowly: A Personal Narrative” " In Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency. New York: Routledge, 1999. 147‐61. Kessler, Laura. "Transgressive Caregiving." In Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encouters, Uncomfortable Conversations, edited by Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson and Adam P. Romero. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 349‐72. Meghani, Zahra, and Lisa Eckenwiler. "Care for the Caregivers? Transnational Justice and Undocumented Non‐Citizen Care Workers." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2, no. 1 (2009): 771‐101. Guevarra, Anne Romina. "Managing 'Vulnerabilities' and 'Empowering' Migrant Filipina Workers: The Philippines' Overseas Employment Program." Social Identities 12, no. 5 (2006): 523‐41. Lynn May Rivas. “Invisible Labors: Caring for the Independent Person.” Barbara Ehrenriech and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003. 70‐84. 9
Women’s Studies 585, Spring 2011 Emory Women’s Studies PhD Program Diamond, Cora. "Eating Meat and Eating People." In Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, edited by Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 93‐107. Harris, Angela. "Should People of Color Support Animal Rights." Journal of Animal Law 5 (2009): 15‐31. Mackinnon, Catherine "Of Mice and Men: A Feminist Fragment on Animal Rights." In Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, edited by Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 263‐76. Nussbaum, Martha C. "Beyond ‘Compassion and Humanity’: Justice for Nonhuman Animals." In Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, edited by Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 299‐320. Satz, Ani. "Animals as Vulnerable Subjects: Beyond Interest‐Convergence, Hierarchy, and Property." Animal Law 16 (2009): 65‐122. Wolfe, Carey. "Learning from Temple Grandin: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject." In What Is Posthumanism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 127‐42. Brown, Wendy. "Moralism as Antipolitics." In Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Culture of Politics, edited by Russ Castronova and Danal Nelson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 368‐92. Evelynn Hammonds, “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality.” differences 6, no. 2+3(1994): 126‐145 Cvetkovich, Ann. “Trauma and Touch: Butch‐Femme Sexualities.” In An Archive of Feeling: Trauma, Sexuality and Lesbian Public Culture. Edited by Michele Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Moon and Eve Kosofky Sedgewick. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 49‐82. Halberstam, Judith. "Animating Revolt/Revolting Animation: Penguin Love, Doll Sex and the
Spectacle of the Queer Nonhuman." In Queering the Non/Human: Queer Interventions,
edited by Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing
Limited, 2008. 265-82.
Gopinath, Gayatri. "Impossible Desires: An Introduction." In Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 1‐28. Muñoz, José Esteban. “Feeling Utopia.” Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 1‐18. 10
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