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Books by Michele Aina Barale






A KWIC Concordance to Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2 Volumes)
by Rubin Rabinovitz, Michele Aina Barale
Hardcover, 1,146 Pages, Published 1988 by Scholarly Title
ISBN-13: 978-0-8240-8394-6, ISBN: 0-8240-8394-6






Daughters and Lovers(1st Edition)
The Live and Writing of Mary Webb
by Michele Aina Barale
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1986 by Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-5140-5, ISBN: 0-8195-5140-6

"Traces the life of the nineteenth-century British novelist, discusses the role of women in Victorian times, and examines the major themes of Webb's novels"






After Sex?(1st Edition)
On Writing since Queer Theory (Series Q)
by Janet Halley, Jonathan Goldberg, Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Michael Moon, Lauren Berlant, Richard Rambuss, Joseph Litvak, José Esteban Muñoz, Michele Aina Barale, Michael Cobb, Ann Cvetkovich
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4909-9, ISBN: 0-8223-4909-4

"Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In "After Sex?" prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field s history, accomplishments, potential, and limitations. They consider the purpose of queer theory and the extent to which it is or is not defined by its engagement wi ..."






Bare Essentials
English Writing Skills
by Sarah Norton, Brian Green, Michele Aina Barale, Orson Scott Card
Paperback, 299 Pages, Published 1983 by Holt Rinehart & Winston
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-059821-0, ISBN: 0-03-059821-4

"... who advised us, encouraged us, and helped us revise much of the manuscript. Sarah Norton Brian Green Michele Aina Bar ale ..."






The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader(1st Edition)
by Henry Abelove, David M. Halperin, Michele Aina Barale, Micháele Aina Barale
Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 1993 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90519-0, ISBN: 0-415-90519-2

"Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work currently being done in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin ..."






Sex Scandal(Updated)
The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction (Series Q)
by William A. Cohen, Michele Ainabarale, Michele Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1996 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1848-4, ISBN: 0-8223-1848-2

"Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages - and never his its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishment. Whether discussing George Eliot's lesbian readers, Anthony Trollope's whorish heroines, or Charles Dickens's masturbating characters, William A. Cohen's study explodes the decorum of mainstream nineteenth-century fiction. By viewing this fiction alongside the most alarming public scanda ..."






Series Q Ser.
The Wedding Complex : Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
by Elizabeth Freeman, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Ainabarale, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2002 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2953-4, ISBN: 0-8223-2953-0

"In "The Wedding Complex" Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings--as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation--are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Looking at the history of Anglo-American weddings and their depictions in A ..."






Hispanisms and Homosexualities
(Series Q)
by Sylvia Molloy, Robert Mckee Irwin, Michele Aina Barale, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Israel Burshatin, Ruben Riosavila, Brad Epps, Robert Mckeeirwin, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1998 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2198-9, ISBN: 0-8223-2198-X

"A man masquerading as a lesbian in Spain's Golden Age fiction. A hermaphrodite's encounters with the Spanish Inquisition. Debates about virility in the national literature of postrevolutionary Mexico. The work of contemporary artists Reinaldo Arenas, Severo Sarduy, and Maria Luisa Bemberg. The public persona of Pedro Zamora, former star of MTV's "The Real World." Despite an enduring queer presence in Hispanic literatures and cultures, m ..."






The Queen of America Goes to Washington City(Updated)
Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Series Q)
by Lauren Gail Berlant, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Aina Barale, Michael Moon, Michele Ainabarale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1997 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1924-5, ISBN: 0-8223-1924-1

"In "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City," Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution. By beaming light onto the idealized images and narratives about ..."






Queer; Early; Modern, by Freccero(Updated)
by Carla Freccero, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Ainabarale, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3678-5, ISBN: 0-8223-3678-2

"In "Queer/Early/Modern," Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. Freccero takes issue with New Historicist accounts of sexual identity that claim to respect historical proprieties and to derive identity categori ..."






Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame(Updated)
Where """"""""""""""""Black"""""""""""""""" Meets """"""""""""""""Queer"""Stockton, Kathryn Bond
by Kathryn Bond Stockton, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Ainabarale, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3783-6, ISBN: 0-8223-3783-5

"Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame," has often been a meeting place for the signs "black" and "queer" and for black and queer people--overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been "embraced" by blacks and queers? How does debasement foster attractions? How is it used for aesthetic delight? What does it offer for projects ..."






Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
(Series Q)
by Didier Eribon, Michael Lucey, Michele Aina Barale, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2004 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3286-2, ISBN: 0-8223-3286-8

"A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, "Insult and the Making of the Gay Self "is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it is lived now and as it has been expressed ..."






The Misfit of the Family(1st Edition)
Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (Series Q)
by Michael Lucey, Michele Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon
Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2003 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3193-3, ISBN: 0-8223-3193-4

"In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters." The Misfit of the Family" reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze--as well as represent--a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, ..."






The Misfit of the Family(Updated)
Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (Series Q)
by Michael Lucey, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Ainabarale, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2003 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3156-8, ISBN: 0-8223-3156-X

"In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters." The Misfit of the Family" reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze--as well as represent--a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, ..."






Making Girls into Women(Updated)
American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity (Series Q)
by Kathryn R. Kent, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Ainabarale, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2003 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3030-1, ISBN: 0-8223-3030-X

""Making Girls into Women" offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white, middle-class women's culture. Kent demonstrates how, as white women's culture shifted more and more from th ..."






Never Say I
Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Series Q)
by Michael Lucey, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Michèle Aina Barale, Michele Aina
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3897-0, ISBN: 0-8223-3897-1

""Never Say I" reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, AndrE Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers these writers' production of a first-person voice in which matters related to same-sex sexuality could be spoken of. He shows how thei ..."






Margaret Mead Made Me Gay(Updated)
Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Series Q)
by Esther Newton, Judith Halberstam, William L. Leap, Bill Leap, Michele Ainabarale, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofskysedgwick, Michele Aina Barale, Professor Jonathan Goldberg
Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2604-5, ISBN: 0-8223-2604-3

""Margaret Mead Made Me Gay" is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection covers a range of topics such as why we need more precise sexual vocabularies, why there have been fewer women doing drag than men, and ho ..."






Queering the Color Line
Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Series Q)
by Siobhan B. Somerville, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Ainabarale, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2407-2, ISBN: 0-8223-2407-5

""Queering the Color Line" transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "color line," the dominant sys ..."






My Dangerous Desires(1st Edition)
A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Series Q)
by Amber L. Hollibaugh, Dorothy Allison, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michele Ainabarale, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Contributor-Dorothy Allison
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2619-9, ISBN: 0-8223-2619-1

"Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires presents over twenty years of Hollibaugh’s writing, an introduction written especially for this book, and five new essays including “A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home,” “My Dangerous Desir ..."






Queer Diasporas
(Series Q)
by Cindy Patton, Benigno Sanchez-Eppler, Jennifer Robertson, Rhonda Cobham-Sander, Michele Ainabarale, Sandra Buckley, Jacob Press, Michele Aina Barale, Professor Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2387-7, ISBN: 0-8223-2387-7

""Queer Diasporas" presents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries. Speaking from a diverse range of ethnic, racial, and national sites, the contributors to this volume illustrate how queer identity in particular is affected in ways that are as varied and nuanced as the cultural, social, and physical environments themselves. Incorp ..."



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