Publisher SeriesPerverse Modernities

Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Marcia Ochoa 22 copies
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Evren Savcı 3 copies
Queer Korea by Todd A. Henry 13 copies
Radical Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America by David L. Eng 69 copies
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Christina B. Hanhardt 63 copies, 1 review
So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance (Perverse Modernities) by Patrick Anderson 13 copies
Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization by Grace Kyungwon Hong 26 copies
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Neda Atanasoski 21 copies
The sense of brown by José Esteban Muñoz 32 copies
The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (Perverse Modernities) by Kara Keeling 40 copies, 1 review
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley 25 copies
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities) by Elizabeth Freeman 76 copies
Unruly visions : the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora by Gayatri Gopinath 18 copies
Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone by Gil Z. Hochberg 7 copies
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Jack Halberstam 36 copies
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Mel Y. Chen 98 copies, 1 review
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Clare Sears 44 copies, 1 review
Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Ari Larissa Heinrich 11 copies
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Perverse Modernities) by Lisa Rofel 31 copies
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Xine Yao 10 copies
Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Chandan Reddy 39 copies
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora by Martin F. Manalansan IV 111 copies, 1 review
Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath 137 copies
Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Amie Elizabeth Parry 10 copies
Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba (Perverse Modernities) by Jafari S. Allen 18 copies
Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913 (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Victor Román Mendoza 15 copies
Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Aren Z Aizura 13 copies
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Sharpe 41 copies
Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) by Hagar Kotef 12 copies
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Perverse Modernities) by M. Jacqui Alexander 130 copies
Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts by David Román 27 copies

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Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality, and its concern with desire, gender, bodies, and performance, on the one hand, from the consideration of race, colonialism, and political economy, on the other, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race, colonialism, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity. Books in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state, the epistemology of the human sciences, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society, the distinction between health and morbidity, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres. Perverse modernities, in this sense, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis, nonwest
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