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White Skin, Red Masks: Queer images from Physique Pictorial, 1957-67.
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White Skin, Red Masks: Queer images from Physique Pictorial, 1957-67.

R.K. Gairola
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Vol.8(4)
2012
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Abstract

Some of the most important theoretical work on queer representation today has been deeply influenced by the work of the late Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who is widely recognized across academic fields as a pioneer of queer studies. In The Epistemology of the Closet (1990), her oft-cited study that interrogates the gay, Western subject of desire as a condensation of latent and manifest scripts of sexual identity, Sedgwick writes that “The gay closet is not only a feature of the lives of gay people…

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