ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The relation between culture and nature presupposed by some models of gender construction implies a culture or an agency of the social which acts upon a nature, which is itself presupposed as a passive surface, outside the social and yet its necessary counterpart. Here it seems that the social regulation of race emerges not simply as another, fully separable, domain of power from sexual difference or sexuality, but that its addition subverts the monolithic workings of the heterosexual imperative as author have described it so far. The author also suggests that the contentious practices of queerness might be understood not only as an example of citational politics, but as a specific reworking of abjection into political agency that might explain why citationality has contemporary political promise.
