See, for example, Teresa de Lauretis’s work on lesbian desire, which profoundly reshapes Freudian psychoanalysis: The Practice of Love: Lesbian Subjectivity and Perverse Desire (Indiana University Press 1994).
Linda Nochlin questioned the unreflected institutional exhibition of orientalist painting in the 1980s in her text “The Imaginary Orient,” in The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society (Harper: 1989), 33–59.
Anne McKlintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995), 4.
McKlintock, Imperial Leather, 5.
McKlintock, Imperial Leather, 3.
McKlintock, Imperial Leather, 3.
McKlintock, Imperial Leather, 25.
McKlintock, Imperial Leather, 26.
McKlintock, Imperial Leather, 24.
McKlintock, Imperial Leather, 31.
McKlintock, Imperial Leather, 23.
See, for example, Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan (Penguin Random House, 2014). The website introducing the book also offers a platform for bacha posh to share their stories in public—see →.
Elisabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Times, Queer Histories (Duke University Press, 2010), 62.
Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin (Routledge, 1993), 307–20.
Freeman, Time Binds, 63.
Freeman, Time Binds, 63.
Freeman, Time Binds, 63.
Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press 2009), 5.
Stockton, Queer Child, 4.
Stockton, Queer Child, 4.
Stockton, Queer Child, 4.
Stockton, Queer Child, 5.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “How to Bring Your Kids up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys,” in Tendencies (Duke University Press, 1993), 154–64.
Stockton, Queer Child, 13.
Stockton, Queer Child, 14.
Stockton, Queer Child, 9.
Francois Leperlier, Claude Cahun: Masks and Metamorphoses, trans. Liz Heron (Verso, 1997).
Whitney Chadwick even formulated self-representation as a female position in surrealism. However, the femme-enfant was a surrealist figure that secured women’s role as lover or muse but excluded them from the art world. See Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (Thames and Hudson 1985).
Abigail Solomon Godeau, “The Equivocal ‘I’: Claude Cahun as Lesbian Subject,” in Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman, eds. Shelley Rice and Lynn Gumpert (MIT Press, 1999), 111–24.
Godeau, “The Equivocal ‘I,’” 116.
Tirza True Latimer reflects on the impossibility of claiming singular authorship for Claude Cahun in her text “Entre Nous: Between Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12, no. 2 (2006): 197–216. Michelle Gewurtz explores Cahun’s Jewish identity in “Equivocally Jewish: Claude Cahun and the Narratives of Modern Art” →.
Godeau, “The Equivocal ‘I,’” 117.
Godeau, “The Equivocal ‘I,’” 117.
These elements are crucial to understanding the modernist usage of oriental textiles, along with poses and gestures that remind one so often of orientalist paintings and their figures that preceded the avant-garde.
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, “Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment,” in Dialectics of Enlightenment (Stanford University Press 2002).
Godeau, “The Equivocal ‘I,’” 114. According to this historical perspective, the antifascist activities of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore during their time on the British island of Jersey cannot be heroized simply as resistance towards a regime the artist opposed. Rather, Cahun and Moore acted against their own physical and symbolic eradication.
South Africa was also part of the non-alignment movement but ended its connections to other member nations after the establishment of apartheid.
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 6.
Hartman, Lose Your Mother, 5.
This text was initially presented at Camera Austria’s “Symposion on Photography XXI: The Violence of Images,” Graz, October 5–6, 2018, in collaboration with steirischer herbst. See →.