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An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

Cvetkovich, Ann

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Series: Series Q

Theater HistoryGLBTQIA Studies

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ISBN10: 0822330768
ISBN13: 9780822330769
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 14 2003
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing--and archiving--accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers. Rejecting the pathologizing understandings of trauma that permeate medical and clinical discourses on the subject, Cvetkovich develops instead a sex-positive approach missing even from most feminist work on trauma. She challenges the field to engage more fully with sexual trauma and the wide range of feelings in its vicinity, including those associated with butch-femme sex and aids activism and caretaking.

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