Inconsequence

Queer Medieval

“…If, as I argue here, female homosexuality takes up a particularly fraught relationship to sequence and retrospectivity, it is because it is not simply a first-order but a second-order derivation, figured in belated relation not only to heterosexuality but also, and no less significantly, to male homosexuality." 24 Jagose is speaking about early-twentieth-century sexology here, yet there are interesting resonances between this sequential logic and premodern studies of the erotic relations between women -for instance, in the oscillations of visibility and invisibility that Traub observes among early modern British women. 25 It is interesting that Bernadette Brooten and her critics, such as Halperin and Ann Pellegrini, all recognize an asymmetry between male and female versions of same-sex eroticism.…”

“…Under a heteronormative regime, female homosexuality is not only forbidden but unthinkable. 23 And even when the lesbian is not entirely invisible, Jagose observes that "homosexuality has registered itself in the cultural imaginary as a problem of sequence -that is, as a problem both of origin and outcome and primacy and secondariness. .…”

“…20 If queer history is built from sometimes ephemeral materials and from contested methodologies, it may also promote a gay male hegemony, a problem that cultural critics such as Annamarie Jagose have noted in Foucault's account of the sodomite/homosexual. 21 This is the third major issue: where are the lesbians, or where is female homoeroticism, in premodern history? Terry Castle was the first to effectively delineate the lesbian as a "ghostly presence" in Western culture.…”

Rethinking bisexual in/visibility on screen: The structuring effect of monogamy, temporality and narrative in You Me Her

“…On historiography and ‘queer spectrality’ see Carla Freccero (2007). On lesbian in/visibility and sexual sequence see Annamarie Jagose (2002). On affective relations to queer history see Heather Love (2007).…”

An Uneasy Pleasure: Representing the Dangers of Skin-to-skin Contact in Eighteenth-century London ‘The William Bynum Prize Essay’

“…61 Recent contributions to this dialogue include Annamarie Jagose, who reads the scene as part of the novel's ongoing 'prioritisation of male-female intercourse'. 62 Meanwhile, Thomas Alan Holmes proposes that the sexual position itself (Fanny and the sailor engage in 'rear-entry' intercourse) 'serves as a compromise between the woman's and man's desires', 63 which he takes to be the missionary position and anal intercourse respectively. Holmes bolsters his interpretation of the sailor scene by reading it alongside another half-realised instance of sodomy that occurs in the Memoirs.…”