ABSTRACT
Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach, and incorporating new and established identities such as non-binary, masculine of centre (MOC), butch, and femme, this collection examines how the changing landscape for gender and sexual identities impacts on queer culture in productive and transformative ways.
Within queer studies, explorations of desire, longing, and eroticism have often neglected AFAB, transfeminine, and non-binary people’s experiences. Through 25 newly commissioned chapters, a diverse range of authors, from early career researchers to established scholars, stage conversations at the cutting edge of sexuality studies. Queering Desire advances our understanding of contemporary lesbian and queer desire from an inclusive perspective that is supportive of trans and non-binary identities.
This innovative interdisciplinary collection is an excellent resource for scholars, undergraduate, and postgraduate students interested in gender, sexuality, and identity across a range of fields, such as queer studies, feminist theory, anthropology, media studies, sociology, psychology, history, and social theory. In foregrounding female and non-binary experiences, this book constitutes a timely intervention.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section 1|84 pages
(In)Visibility and the Queer Gaze
chapter 3|12 pages
‘In Their Loving Gaze I Saw Who I Could Be’
section Section 2|90 pages
Lineage and Generational Shifts
chapter 7|15 pages
Femme Frontiers
chapter 9|16 pages
From Butch and Femme to Non-Binary and Queer
chapter 11|16 pages
Increased Lesbian Visibility and Its Discontents
section Section 3|68 pages
Queer Embodiment
chapter 14|13 pages
Complicating Queer Desires
chapter 16|12 pages
‘Aren't You Ashamed?’
section Section 4|108 pages
Queer Longings