Preconceiving Life: Response to Gentile’s “Troubling Temporalities”

Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D., is Professor of Performance Studies and of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, where she also directs the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Her books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997); Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen (New York University Press, 2003); and “You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People, co-authored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico (Beacon Press, 2013).
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