The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect. They consider commitment in all its guises, particularly relationships beyond and aside from monogamous partnering. These include chosen and involuntary long-term commitments to families, friends, pets, and coworkers; to the care of others and care of self; and to financial, psychiatric, and carceral institutions. Whether considering the enduring challenges of chronic illnesses and disability, including HIV and chronic fatigue syndrome; theorizing the queer family as a scene of racialized commitment; or relating the grief and loss that comes with caring for pets, the contributors demonstrate that attending to the long term offers a fuller understanding of queer engagements with intimacy, mortality, change, dependence, and care.
Contributors. Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Scott Herring, Annamarie Jagose, Amy Jamgochian, E. Patrick Johnson, Jaya Keaney, Heather Love, Sally R. Munt, Kane Race, Amy Villarejo, Lee Wallace
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- Foreword: Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey / E. Patrick Johnson
- Introduction: A Theory of the Long Term / Scott Herring and Lee Wallace
- 1. Committed to the End: On Caretaking, Rereading, and Queer Theory / Elizabeth Freeman
- 2. Loss and the Long Term / Amy Villarejo
- 3. Unhealthy Attachments: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Commitment to Endure / Sally R. Munt
- 4. A Lifetime of Drugs / Kane Race
- 5. Death Do Us Part / Carla Freccero
- 6. Never Better: Queer Commitment Phobia in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life / Scott Herring
- 7. Race, Incarceration, and the Commitment to Volunteer / Amy Jamgochian
- 8. The Color of Kinship: Race, Biology, and Queer Reproduction / Jaya Keaney
- 9. Toward a Political Economy of the Long Term / Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever
- 10. Serial Commitment, or, 100 Ways to Leave Your Lover / Annamarie Jagose and Lee Wallace
- 11. The Long Run / Heather Love
- Contributors
- Index
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