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“... In the introduction to her new book, Touching Feeling, the queer theorist Eve KosofskySedgwick describes its strange and haunting black and white cover photograph as ‘the catalyst that impelled me to assemble the book in its present form’. It depicts a woman clumsily embracing an object that resembles an enormous wasps’ nest made of sticks and twine ...”

“... genre of gender construction and deconstruction studies, epitomised in the work and persona of Eve KosofskySedgwick (the straight woman in heavily-theorised white glasses who would rather be a gay man), Barbie’s Queer Accessories nonetheless keeps one foot high on the moral ground of traditional ...”

“... emphasises, the reader is the one who makes the difference. In her Epistemology of the Closet, Eve KosofskySedgwick writes: ‘it was only close to the end of the 19th century that a cross-class homosexual role and a consistent, ideologically full thematic discourse of male homosexuality became entirely visible, in ...”

“... the essential fixity of sexual oppositions and identity politics. Feminist theorists including Eve KosofskySedgwick, Judith Butler, Marjorie Garber and Diana Fuss have called for more fluid work on questions of sexual difference which will address what Butler calls ‘gender trouble’. A number of recent studies ...”

“... Barthes emerges as one of many heroes in this book, along with Wittgenstein, Catherine Opie and Eve KosofskySedgwick. Harry is Harry Dodge, the artist, filmmaker and genderqueer pioneer, who chooses to live, biologically and socially, between genders while mostly answering to, and passing when he wants to, as ...”

“... this historicising have been taken recently by a number of scholars, including Caroline Bynum, Eve KosofskySedgwick, Christopher Craft, Thomas Laqueur, and, of course, Michel Foucault. When the implications of this work are fully absorbed, it will be more difficult to write of lesbian nuns in Renaissance Italy, but ...”

“... boldly against the feminist critics and queer theorists – such as Judith Butler, Martha Vicinus, Eve KosofskySedgwick and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg – through whom she has evidently formulated her thinking, proposes a new account of women’s lives in the mid to late 19th century. The advantage of her method is that ...”

“... formaldehyde: first, he is science’s current Everyman (and, until he’s joined by a promised ‘Eve’, this is taken at all-embracing, generic force), whereas the 18th-century cabinets sought to define the norm through aberration, disease, deformity, monsters; secondly, he has been dematerialised and rendered imponderable, spectral, beamed digitally ...”

“... in some excellent recent work by critics and historians of sexuality, in particular Alan Bray and Eve KosofskySedgwick. Boswell had little time for such sophistication, but it seems highly relevant to any understanding of adelphopoiesis. The most striking feature of ‘made brothers’ is not their assimilation to the ...”

“... offers just one view of a landscape that has been sketched by Michael Polanyi, Paul Ricoeur, Eve KosofskySedgwick, Bruno Latour, Stephen Best, Toril Moi, Hal Foster, Namwali Serpell and others. Her current work is perhaps the liveliest and least plangent forum for questions about how to read and write criticism ...”

“... had already begun to develop an identification with the article’s author, a Jewish woman called Eve KosofskySedgwick – a cross-sex, cross-sexuality identification (she’s not gay) that I’d come to write about in ‘Fake It like a Man’. The woman, you see, would soon come to dominate sexuality studies. And ...”

“... to speculate about the complex patterns of James’s erotic identifications and avoidances – as Eve KosofskySedgwick has brilliantly done with ‘The Beast in the Jungle’, for example – without assuming that the Figure in the Carpet must always turn out to be William. Though the preface to Henry James: A Life ...”

“... Duke University is also celebrated for its department of queer studies, headed by the redoubtable Eve KosofskySedgwick. Lesbian fiction has from the very beginning – except when it was entirely separatist – been associated in the US with the feminist movement. Only a few lesbian novelists – Jeanette Winterson in ...”

“... few of the critics who’ve written most instructively about triangulation and homosociality, like Eve KosofskySedgwick or, before her, René Girard in Deceit, Desire and the Novel. Instead, he brings into the argument a famous but altogether less pertinent essay, Leslie Fiedler’s ‘Come Back to the Raft, Huck ...”

“... often remembered as a queer icon. And yes, Acker had a lot of sex with both men and women, but as Eve KosofskySedgwick explained in Tendencies (1993), that’s far from all that queerness is about. More expansively, it names what Sedgwick called ‘the open mesh of possibilities ...”