Sedgwick Axioms Flashcards
Axiom 1: People are…
different from each other
Axiom 2: The study of sexuality is not coextensive with the study of gender; correspondingly….
antihomophobic inquiry is not coextensive with feminist inquiry. But we can’t know in advance how they will be different.
Axiom 3: There can’t be a priori decision about how far it will make sense to conceptualize…
lesbian and gay male identities together. Or separately.
Axiom 4: The immemorial, seemingly ritualized debates on nature versus nurture take place against a very…
unstable background of tacit assumptions and fantasies about both nurture and nature.
Axiom 5: The historical search for a Great Paradigm Shift…
may obscure the present conditions of sexual identity.
Axiom 6: The relation of gay studies to debates on the literary canon is…
and had best be, tortuous.
Axiom 7: The paths of allo-identification are likely to be…
strange and recalcitrant. So are the paths of auto-identification.
