ABOUT THIS BOOK
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

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Scott Herring is Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University and author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture.

Lee Wallace is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and author of Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage, also published by Duke University Press.

E. Patrick Johnson is Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey / E. Patrick Johnson  vii
Introduction: A Theory of the Long Term / Scott Herring and Lee Wallace  1
1. Committed to the End: On Caretaking, Rereading, and Queer Theory / Elizabeth Freeman  25
2. Loss and the Long Term / Amy Villarejo  46
3. Unhealthy Attachments: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Commitment to Endure / Sally R. Munt  63
4. A Lifetime of Drugs / Kane Race  89
5. Death Do Us Part / Carla Freccero  117
6. Never Better: Queer Commitment Phobia in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life / Scott Herring  134
7. Race, Incarceration, and the Commitment of Volunteer / Amy Jamgochian  155
8. The Color of Kinship: Race, Biology, and Queer Reproduction / Jaya Keaney  175
9. Toward a Political Economy of the Long Term / Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever  199
10. Serial Commitment, or, 100 Ways to Leave Your Lover / Annemarie Jagose and Lee Wallace  223
11. The Long Run / Heather Love  250
Contributors  267
Index  271

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