Lisa Duggan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Duggan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Duggan |
| SIGNATURE | DUGGAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rated A: Soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India by Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Reimagining the State
Reimagining the State Lisa Duggan (bio) What is the state? How do we grasp it, engage it, transform it? These are the broad questions to which this issue of WSQ is addressed. The articles and reviews here take concrete historical approaches to the dilemmas that social movements face in relation to state formations, as they are intertwined with racial capitalism and with shifting arrangements of intimacy and care. Right now, it can seem that the p…
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism
Making It Perfectly Queer
The notion of a "queer community" can work somewhat differently. It is often used to construct a collectivity no longer defined solely by the gender of its members' sexual partners. This new community is unified only by a shared dissent from the dominant organization of sex and gender. But not every individual or group that adopts the name "queer" means to invoke these altered boundaries. Many members of Queer Nation, a highly decentralized milit…
The Fun and the Fury of Transforming American Studies
The Fun and the Fury of Transforming American Studies Lisa Duggan (bio) On December 4, 2014, two overwhelming events shaped the year to come, for me and many other members of the American Studies Association. At 9 a.m. Anna McCarthy called to tell me that José Muñoz (one of the cochairs and a chief architect of this year’s ASA conference) had died suddenly in the early hours of the morning. At about 12 noon, the ASA announced publicly that the re…
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Love and Anger
Gayle Rubin's reputation as a star academic and public intellectual has been based on her cool brilliance. But her public and professional reception has also been marked, positively and negatively, by the ambivalence generated by strong feeling. This article describes Rubin's affective surround in an effort to outline the impact of passionate engagement in feminist and queer politics and scholarship
Hope and hopelessness: A dialogue
This article is a critical dialogue between Lisa Duggan and José Esteban Muñoz that meditates on questions of public feelings and politics. The authors approach hope and hopelessness as a dialectical formation, ultimately calling for both a critical modality of hope and insisting on the political necessity of engaging feelings of hopelessness that do not simply lead to complacency. The essay melds social theory with concepts from the psychologica…
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage
A few weeks after September 11, 2001, I went with my ex-lover to register as domestic partners with the city of New York. We had never registered our relationship with any state agency during the 1
Crossing the Line
Crossing the Line
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
In Sapphic Slashers, Lisa Duggan offers a cultural study of the lesbian love murder narrative as a product that depoliticized and trivialized the struggle of women for political equality, economic autonomy, and alternative domesticities. The focus is the murder of Freda Ward by her “girl lover,” Alice Mitchell, on January 25, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee. Juxtaposed to the murder is the lynching in Memphis less than two months later of Thomas Moss…
Down There
Book Review| June 01 2002 DOWN THERE: The Queer South and the Future of History Writing Men Like That: A Southern Queer History John Howard Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxiii + 395 pp.$27.50 cloth, $18.00 paper Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 379–387. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-3-379 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissio…
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. …
Commentary: Dreaming Democracy
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 4, Autumn 2000
Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema . Rhona J. Berenstein Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters . Judith Halberstam
A fem(me)inist manifesto
Gender and Cultural History
Research Article| January 01 1996 Gender and Cultural History Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (64): 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-64-31 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lisa …
Becoming Visible: "The Legacy of Stonewall," New York Public Library, June 18-September 24, 1994
Research Article| May 01 1995 “Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall,” New York Public Library, June 18–September 24, 1994 Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 189–194. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-189 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Duggan; “Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall,” New York Publi…
The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History
Research Article| June 01 1995 The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (3): 179–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-3-179 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Duggan; The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History. GLQ 1 June 1995; 2 (3): 179–191. doi: https://d…
Queering the State
The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America
From instincts to politics: Writing the history of sexuality in the U.S
This review essay traces the impact of feminism on the development of a new approach to the history of sexuality over the past decade. Recent scholarship is surveyed to show how the reconceptualization of gender and sexual relations as social constructions, involving power and politics rather than simply “natural” biological factors, has shaped the questions and methods of historians
Lesbianism and American History: A Brief Source Review
As a student for the past seven years, I have looked to history as a way of understanding the dynamics of the complex society in which I live. Through the study of history, I have been able to trace the development over time of the class structure, racist assumptions, and misogynist character of the world around me. I have also been able to trace the development of parallel movements of resistance, through the study of black history, labor histor…
Hope and hopelessness: A dialogue
This article is a critical dialogue between Lisa Duggan and José Esteban Muñoz that meditates on questions of public feelings and politics. The authors approach hope and hopelessness as a dialectical formation, ultimately calling for both a critical modality of hope and insisting on the political necessity of engaging feelings of hopelessness that do not simply lead to complacency. The essay melds social theory with concepts from the psychologica…
The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History
Research Article| June 01 1995 The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (3): 179–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-3-179 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Duggan; The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History. GLQ 1 June 1995; 2 (3): 179–191. doi: https://d…
Queering the State
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage
A few weeks after September 11, 2001, I went with my ex-lover to register as domestic partners with the city of New York. We had never registered our relationship with any state agency during the 1
A fem(me)inist manifesto
The Fun and the Fury of Transforming American Studies
The Fun and the Fury of Transforming American Studies Lisa Duggan (bio) On December 4, 2014, two overwhelming events shaped the year to come, for me and many other members of the American Studies Association. At 9 a.m. Anna McCarthy called to tell me that José Muñoz (one of the cochairs and a chief architect of this year’s ASA conference) had died suddenly in the early hours of the morning. At about 12 noon, the ASA announced publicly that the re…
Love and Anger
Gayle Rubin's reputation as a star academic and public intellectual has been based on her cool brilliance. But her public and professional reception has also been marked, positively and negatively, by the ambivalence generated by strong feeling. This article describes Rubin's affective surround in an effort to outline the impact of passionate engagement in feminist and queer politics and scholarship
Reimagining the State
Reimagining the State Lisa Duggan (bio) What is the state? How do we grasp it, engage it, transform it? These are the broad questions to which this issue of WSQ is addressed. The articles and reviews here take concrete historical approaches to the dilemmas that social movements face in relation to state formations, as they are intertwined with racial capitalism and with shifting arrangements of intimacy and care. Right now, it can seem that the p…
Down There
Book Review| June 01 2002 DOWN THERE: The Queer South and the Future of History Writing Men Like That: A Southern Queer History John Howard Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxiii + 395 pp.$27.50 cloth, $18.00 paper Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 379–387. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-3-379 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissio…
Lesbianism and American History: A Brief Source Review
As a student for the past seven years, I have looked to history as a way of understanding the dynamics of the complex society in which I live. Through the study of history, I have been able to trace the development over time of the class structure, racist assumptions, and misogynist character of the world around me. I have also been able to trace the development of parallel movements of resistance, through the study of black history, labor histor…
Lesbianism and American History: A Brief Source Review
As a student for the past seven years, I have looked to history as a way of understanding the dynamics of the complex society in which I live. Through the study of history, I have been able to trace the development over time of the class structure, racist assumptions, and misogynist character of the world around me. I have also been able to trace the development of parallel movements of resistance, through the study of black history, labor histor…
From instincts to politics: Writing the history of sexuality in the U.S
This review essay traces the impact of feminism on the development of a new approach to the history of sexuality over the past decade. Recent scholarship is surveyed to show how the reconceptualization of gender and sexual relations as social constructions, involving power and politics rather than simply “natural” biological factors, has shaped the questions and methods of historians
The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America
Queering the State
Becoming Visible: "The Legacy of Stonewall," New York Public Library, June 18-September 24, 1994
Research Article| May 01 1995 “Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall,” New York Public Library, June 18–September 24, 1994 Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 189–194. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-189 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Duggan; “Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall,” New York Publi…
The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History
Research Article| June 01 1995 The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (3): 179–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-3-179 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Duggan; The Discipline Problem: Queer Theory Meets Lesbian and Gay History. GLQ 1 June 1995; 2 (3): 179–191. doi: https://d…
A fem(me)inist manifesto
Gender and Cultural History
Research Article| January 01 1996 Gender and Cultural History Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (64): 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-64-31 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lisa …
Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema . Rhona J. Berenstein Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters . Judith Halberstam
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. …
Commentary: Dreaming Democracy
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 4, Autumn 2000
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
In Sapphic Slashers, Lisa Duggan offers a cultural study of the lesbian love murder narrative as a product that depoliticized and trivialized the struggle of women for political equality, economic autonomy, and alternative domesticities. The focus is the murder of Freda Ward by her “girl lover,” Alice Mitchell, on January 25, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee. Juxtaposed to the murder is the lynching in Memphis less than two months later of Thomas Moss…
Down There
Book Review| June 01 2002 DOWN THERE: The Queer South and the Future of History Writing Men Like That: A Southern Queer History John Howard Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxiii + 395 pp.$27.50 cloth, $18.00 paper Lisa Duggan Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2002) 8 (3): 379–387. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8-3-379 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissio…
Crossing the Line
Crossing the Line
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage
A few weeks after September 11, 2001, I went with my ex-lover to register as domestic partners with the city of New York. We had never registered our relationship with any state agency during the 1
Hope and hopelessness: A dialogue
This article is a critical dialogue between Lisa Duggan and José Esteban Muñoz that meditates on questions of public feelings and politics. The authors approach hope and hopelessness as a dialectical formation, ultimately calling for both a critical modality of hope and insisting on the political necessity of engaging feelings of hopelessness that do not simply lead to complacency. The essay melds social theory with concepts from the psychologica…
Love and Anger
Gayle Rubin's reputation as a star academic and public intellectual has been based on her cool brilliance. But her public and professional reception has also been marked, positively and negatively, by the ambivalence generated by strong feeling. This article describes Rubin's affective surround in an effort to outline the impact of passionate engagement in feminist and queer politics and scholarship
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
The Fun and the Fury of Transforming American Studies
The Fun and the Fury of Transforming American Studies Lisa Duggan (bio) On December 4, 2014, two overwhelming events shaped the year to come, for me and many other members of the American Studies Association. At 9 a.m. Anna McCarthy called to tell me that José Muñoz (one of the cochairs and a chief architect of this year’s ASA conference) had died suddenly in the early hours of the morning. At about 12 noon, the ASA announced publicly that the re…
Making It Perfectly Queer
The notion of a "queer community" can work somewhat differently. It is often used to construct a collectivity no longer defined solely by the gender of its members' sexual partners. This new community is unified only by a shared dissent from the dominant organization of sex and gender. But not every individual or group that adopts the name "queer" means to invoke these altered boundaries. Many members of Queer Nation, a highly decentralized milit…
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism
Reimagining the State
Reimagining the State Lisa Duggan (bio) What is the state? How do we grasp it, engage it, transform it? These are the broad questions to which this issue of WSQ is addressed. The articles and reviews here take concrete historical approaches to the dilemmas that social movements face in relation to state formations, as they are intertwined with racial capitalism and with shifting arrangements of intimacy and care. Right now, it can seem that the p…
Rated A: Soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India by Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (10 works) · History (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Queer (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)