A work of queer theory focusing on the relationship between pleasure and time.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction: Queer and Not Now 1
1. Junk Inheritances, Bad Timing: Familial Arrhythmia in Three Working-Class Dyke Narratives 21
2. Deep Lez: Temporal Drag and the Specters of Feminism 59
3. Time Binds, or, Erotohistoriography 95
4. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History 137
Coda 171
Appendix: Distributors for Films and Videos 175
Notes 177
Bibliography 193
Index 209

Elizabeth Freeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture, also published by Duke University Press.