Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction: Queer and Not Now 1
1. Junk Inheritances, Bad Timing: Familial Arrhythmia in Three Working-Class Dyke Narratives 21
2. Deep Lez: Temporal Drag and the Specters of Feminism 59
3. Time Binds, or, Erotohistoriography 95
4. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History 137
Coda 171
Appendix: Distributors for Films and Videos 175
Notes 177
Bibliography 193
Index 209

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A work of queer theory focusing on the relationship between pleasure and time

About the Author

Elizabeth Freeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"Time Binds is an elegant book bristling with intelligence and wit. A fascinating blend of the familiar and the new, it will have a major hand in opening up queer theory to its own repressed, to its own dreams, to take its chances." --Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern "Blazing and brilliant. Elizabeth Freeman forges claims with texture, rigor, relevance and grace, giving her masterful, original study a voice of unusual tenderness and depth. Clearly, Freeman stands at the forefront of where queer theory needs to go: into the strangeness, the utter queerness, lying inside the beats of time."--Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century