Introduction / Janet Halley and Andrew Parker  1

Genealogies of After  

Queer Times / Carla Freccero  17

Still After / Elizabeth Freeman  27

After Thoughts / Jonathan Goldberg  34

Glad to Be Unhappy / Joseph Litvack  45

Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex? / Michael Moon  55

Post Sex: On Being Too Slow, Too Stupid, Too Soon / Kate Thomas  66

Affects and the (Anti-) Social  

Starved / Lauren Berlant  79

Shame On You / Leo Bersani  91

Ever After: History, Negativity, and the Social / Lee Edelman  110

Queering Identities  

What's Queer About Race / Richard Thompson Ford  121

Queer Theory Addiction / Neville Hoad  130

The Sense of Watching Tony Sleep / Josee Esteban Mun~oz  142

Oklahobo: Following Craig Womack's American Indian and Queer Studies / Bethany Schneider  151

Lesbian and Gay After Queer   

Public Feelings / Ann Cvetkovich  169

Queers ____ This / Heather Love  180

After Male Sex / Richard Rambuss  192

Neither Freud nor Foucault?  

Lonely / Michael Cobb  207

When? Where? What? / Michael Lucey  221

Queer Theory: Postmortem / Jeff Nunokawa  245

Disturbing Sexuality / Elizabeth A. Povinelli   257

After Sex?! / Erica Rand  270

After After Sex?  

Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick  283

Contributors  303

Index  307

Lauren Berlant

Michael Cobb

Ann Cvetkovich

Lee Edelman

Richard Thompson Ford

Carla Freccero

Elizabeth Freeman

Jonathan Goldberg

Joseph Litvak

Michael Moon

José Esteban Muñoz

Jeffrey Nunokawa

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Richard Rambuss

Erica Rand

Bethany Schneider

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Kate Thomas

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