Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Recent contributions to queer studies have been marked by what can provisionally be called a turn toward time, specifically time's various normative condensations around issues of community formation, most notably with respect to the family and the subculture. While the specter of time often seems suspended between elite contemplation and public imagination, the emergent rubric of temporalities, explored in GLQ's special issue (2007;13/2-3), announced a possibly radical moment in which genders can be analyzed as breaking down "over time" politically and taxonomically, perhaps to the effect that deconstructive momentum realized in the context of gender/sexuality may facilitate an appreciation of maturity as a queryable paradigm of subjectivity and identity onto itself, that is to say—rather than as a mere politicizable complication of the idea of gender.
Repository Citation
Janssen, Diederik F.. "Transmaturities: Gender Trouble as Tentative Analogue for Maturity Trouble." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 3, 2009, pp. 1–22. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss3/5