ISBN:
9780817387518
,
081738751X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (225 pages)
Series Statement:
Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rand, Erin J Reclaiming Queer
DDC:
306.7601
Keywords:
Gay rights United States
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Gays Political activity
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United States
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Rhetoric Political aspects
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Rhetoric Social aspects
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Queer theory United States
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Gay rights
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Gays Political activity
;
Rhetoric Political aspects
;
Rhetoric Social aspects
;
Queer theory
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Gay rights
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Gays ; Political activity
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Queer theory
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Rhetoric ; Political aspects
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Rhetoric ; Social aspects
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Gender & Ethnic Studies
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Social Sciences
;
Gay & Lesbian Studies
;
United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Reclaiming Queer is an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a defining historical moment for both queer activism and queer theory in the United States. LGBT communities, confronted with the alarming violence and homophobia of the AIDS crisis, often responded with angry, militant forms of activism designed not merely to promote acceptance or tolerance, but to forge identity and strength from victimization and assert loudly and forcefully their rig
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