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Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies

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  • Introduction
    • Care, Sandy Grande
    • Deviance, Kemi Adeyemi
    • Disability, Sami Schalk
    • Femme, Ashley Coleman Taylor
    • Labor, Jan M. Padios
    • Property, K-Sue Park
    • Race, Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective
    • Religion, Tazeen M. Ali
    • Sexuality, Durba Mitra
    • #, micha cárdenas
    • Abjection, Leticia Alvarado
    • Affect, Joshua Javier Guzmán
    • Agency, Hershini Bhana Young
    • Anal, Dredge Byung’chu Kang and Nguyen Tan Hoang
    • BDSM, Jennifer DeClue
    • Bathroom, Perry Zurn
    • Biology, Banu Subramaniam and Angie Willey
    • Biopower, Kyla Wazana Tompkins
    • Capital, Grace Kyungwon Hong
    • Carcerality, Beth E. Richie
    • Cis, Finn Enke
    • Citizenship, Julie Avril Minich
    • Colonialism, Geeta Patel
    • Consent, Emily Owens
    • Decolonization, Hōkūlani K. Aikau
    • Development, Dina M. Siddiqi
    • Diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath
    • Difference, Lisa Kahaleole Hall
    • Ecology, Kyle Powys Whyte
    • Education, Savannah Shange
    • Experience, Mimi Thi Nguyen
    • Fat, Virgie Tovar
    • Flesh, Tiffany Lethabo King
    • Gender, Jules Gill-Peterson
    • Girl, Karishma Desai
    • Health, Jenna M. Loyd
    • Heteronormativity, Scott L. Morgensen
    • Heterosexuality, Jane Ward
    • Identity, Joshua Chambers-Letson
    • Imperialism, Shelley Streeby
    • Indigeneity, Shannon Speed
    • Intersectionality, Jennifer C. Nash
    • Intersex, Sean Saifa Wall
    • Justice, Emily Thuma and Sarah Haley
    • Lesbian, Jeanne Vaccaro and Joan Lubin
    • Masculinity, Jack Halberstam
    • Matter, Mel Y. Chen
    • Methods, Matt Brim and Amin Ghaziani
    • Migration, Lisa Sun-Hee Park
    • Movements, Soyica Diggs Colbert
    • Performativity, Tavia Nyong’o
    • Porn, Lynn Comella
    • Queer, Chandan Reddy
    • Reproduction, Aren Z. Aizura
    • Securitization, Neel Ahuja
    • Settler Colonialism, Manu Karuka
    • Sex, Amber Jamilla Musser
    • Sex Work, Heather Berg
    • Sovereignty, Joanne Barker
    • Space, Michelle Daigle and Margaret Marietta Ramírez
    • Sports, Jennifer Doyle
    • State, A. Naomi Paik
    • Subaltern, Susan Koshy
    • Subjectivity, Greta LaFleur
    • Temporality, Elizabeth Freeman
    • The Erotic, Sharon Patricia Holland
    • Trans, Jacob Lau
    • Transnational, Evren Savci
    • Two Spirit, Elton Naswood
    • Woman, Kyla Schuller
    • #, micha cárdenas
    • Abjection, Leticia Alvarado
    • Affect, Joshua Javier Guzmán
    • Agency, Hershini Bhana Young
    • Anal, Dredge Byung’chu Kang and Nguyen Tan Hoang
    • BDSM, Jennifer DeClue
    • Bathroom, Perry Zurn
    • Biology, Banu Subramaniam and Angie Willey
    • Biopower, Kyla Wazana Tompkins
    • Capital, Grace Kyungwon Hong
    • Carcerality, Beth E. Richie
    • Care, Sandy Grande
    • Cis, Finn Enke
    • Citizenship, Julie Avril Minich
    • Colonialism, Geeta Patel
    • Consent, Emily Owens
    • Decolonization, Hōkūlani K. Aikau
    • Development, Dina M. Siddiqi
    • Deviance, Kemi Adeyemi
    • Diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath
    • Difference, Lisa Kahaleole Hall
    • Disability, Sami Schalk
    • Ecology, Kyle Powys Whyte
    • Education, Savannah Shange
    • Experience, Mimi Thi Nguyen
    • Fat, Virgie Tovar
    • Femme, Ashley Coleman Taylor
    • Flesh, Tiffany Lethabo King
    • Gender, Jules Gill-Peterson
    • Girl, Karishma Desai
    • Health, Jenna M. Loyd
    • Heteronormativity, Scott L. Morgensen
    • Heterosexuality, Jane Ward
    • Identity, Joshua Chambers-Letson
    • Imperialism, Shelley Streeby
    • Indigeneity, Shannon Speed
    • Intersectionality, Jennifer C. Nash
    • Intersex, Sean Saifa Wall
    • Justice, Emily Thuma and Sarah Haley
    • Labor, Jan M. Padios
    • Lesbian, Jeanne Vaccaro and Joan Lubin
    • Masculinity, Jack Halberstam
    • Matter, Mel Y. Chen
    • Methods, Matt Brim and Amin Ghaziani
    • Migration, Lisa Sun-Hee Park
    • Movements, Soyica Diggs Colbert
    • Performativity, Tavia Nyong’o
    • Porn, Lynn Comella
    • Property, K-Sue Park
    • Queer, Chandan Reddy
    • Race, Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective
    • Religion, Tazeen M. Ali
    • Reproduction, Aren Z. Aizura
    • Securitization, Neel Ahuja
    • Settler Colonialism, Manu Karuka
    • Sex, Amber Jamilla Musser
    • Sex Work, Heather Berg
    • Sexuality, Durba Mitra
    • Sovereignty, Joanne Barker
    • Space, Michelle Daigle and Margaret Marietta Ramírez
    • Sports, Jennifer Doyle
    • State, A. Naomi Paik
    • Subaltern, Susan Koshy
    • Subjectivity, Greta LaFleur
    • Temporality, Elizabeth Freeman
    • The Erotic, Sharon Patricia Holland
    • Trans, Jacob Lau
    • Transnational, Evren Savci
    • Two Spirit, Elton Naswood
    • Woman, Kyla Schuller
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Subjectivity

book Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies
by Greta LaFleur
What does it mean to be a subject—to be a subject of or to be subject to? What does it mean, what does it feel like, to be hailed—interpellated, as some theorists have termed it—as a subject? And what is the relationship between being a subject and having a subjectivity?

This essay may be found on page 231 of the printed volume.

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