Since the early 1980s Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's name has been synonymous with queer theory and gay studies. A field she helped develop with University of California professor Judith Butler, queer theory is concerned primarily with the analysis of...

SHAME IS "SEXY" these days, as they like to say in the dreary parlance of academia. There is already a trickle of shame dissertations, shame monographs, and shame symposia, all dating back to City University of New York professor and queer-theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's...

Several scenarios depicting the stereotypical triangle of two men and a woman are presented not from the exclusive viewpoint of gender and sexuality but also from a racial perspective. The central suject is a raped woman. The usual explanations for group rape of a...