Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Full Name	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Occupation	Academic
Date Of Birth	May 2, 1950(1950-05-02)
Age	74
Date Of Death	April 12, 2009, New York, NY
Birthplace	Dayton
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Taurus

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Biography

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on May 2, 1950 in Dayton, Ohio, United States.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (/ˈ s ɛ dʒ w ɪ k / ; May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), and critical theory. Sedgwick published several books considered “groundbreaking” in the field of queer theory, including Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), Epistemology of the Closet (1990), and Tendencies (1993). Her critical writings helped create the field of queer studies. Her works reflect an interest in a range of issues, including queer performativity; experimental critical writing; the works of Marcel Proust; non-Lacanian psychoanalysis; artists’ books; Buddhism and pedagogy; the affective theories of Silvan Tomkins and Melanie Klein; and material culture, especially textiles and texture.

Sedgwick published several foundational books in the field of queer theory, including Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), Epistemology of the Closet (1990), and Tendencies (1993). Sedgwick also coedited several volumes and published a book of poetry Fat Art, Thin Art (1994) as well as A Dialogue on Love (1999). Her first book, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (1986), was a revision of her doctoral thesis. Her last book Touching Feeling (2003) maps her interest in affect, pedagogy, and performativity. Jonathan Goldberg edited her late essays and lectures, many of which are segments from an unfinished study of Proust. According to Goldberg, these late writings also examine such subjects as Buddhism, object relations and affect theory, psychoanalytic writers such as Melanie Klein, Silvan Tomkins, D.W. Winnicott, and Michael Balint, the poetry of C. V. Cavafy, philosophical Neoplatonism, and identity politics.

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In her article, Sedgwick juxtaposed three treatments of female suffering, namely Marianne Dashwood’s emotional frenzy when Willoughby abandons her in Sense and Sensibility, a 19th-century French medical account of the “cure” inflicted on a girl who liked to masturbate, and the critic Tony Tanner’s “vengeful” treatment of Emma Woodhouse as a woman who had to be taught her place. Sedgwick argued that by the middle of the 18th century, the “sexual identity” of the onanist was well established in British disclosures and that Austen writing at the beginning of the 19th century would have been familiar with it. Sedgwick used Austen’s description of Marianne Dashwood, whose “eyes were in constant inquiry”, whose “mind was equally abstracted from everything actually before them” as she was “restless and dissatisfied” and unable to sit still. She then compared Sense and Sensibility with the 1881 document “Onanism and Nervous Disorders in Two Little Girls” where the patient X has a “roving eye”, “cannot keep still” and is “incapable of anything”. In Sedgwick’s viewpoint, the description of Patient X, who could not stop masturbating and was in a constant state of hysteria as the doctor tried to keep her from masturbating by such methods like having her hands tied together, closely matched Austen’s description of Marianne Dashwood. Sedgwick argued that both patient X and Dashwood were seen as suffering from an excess of sexuality that needed to be brought under control, arguing that though Elinor Dashwood did things considerably more gently than the doctor who repeatedly burned Patient X’s clitoris that both were agents of discipline and control.

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In 1993, Duke University Press published a collection of Sedgwick’s essays from the 1980s and early 1990s. The book was the first entry in Duke’s influential “Series Q,” which was initially edited by Michele Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, and Sedgwick herself. The essays span a wide range of genres, including elegies for activists and scholars who died of AIDS, performance pieces, and academic essays on topics such as sado- masochism, poetics and masturbation. In Tendencies, Sedgwick first publicly embraces the word ‘queer,’ defining it as: “the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone’s gender, of anyone’s sexuality aren’t made (or can’t be made) to signify monolithically.”

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Touching Feeling is written as a reminder of the early days of queer theory, which Sedgwick discusses briefly in the introduction in order to reference the affective conditions—chiefly the emotions provoked by the AIDS epidemic—that prevailed at the time and to bring into focus her principal theme: the relationship between feeling, learning, and action. Touching Feeling explores critical methods that may engage politically and help shift the foundations for individual and collective experience. In the opening paragraph, Sedgwick describes her project as the exploration of “promising tools and techniques for nondualistic thought and pedagogy.”

Was Eve Kosofsky a Sedgwick queer?

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Spouse| Hal Sedgwick ​ ( m. 1969)​

What is reparative reading?

Reparative reading, on the other hand, searches for the positive in even a deeply flawed work. It seeks pleasure instead of avoiding pain. It recognizes where the text might benefit some viewers/readers, even if it’s not personally pleasurable. If you’re on Twitter, paranoid reading will sound immediately familiar.

What did Eve Sedgwick do?

The US academic and writer Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who has died aged 58 of breast cancer, was one of the sharpest and most committed exponents of queer theory, the exploration of sexual perspectives other than that of conventional straightness in literature and the humanities.

Who coined the term homosocial?

Homosocial was popularized by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in her discussion of male homosocial desire. Sedgwick used the term to distinguish from “homosexual” and to connote a form of male bonding often accompanied by fear or hatred of homosexuality.

What is reparative reading Sedgwick?

In 1995, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick proposed the concept of “reparative reading,” a critique of what she called “paranoid reading,” a certain hermeneutic of aggravated suspicion and negative affects.