ISBN:
9786613018588
,
9781283018586
,
9780754690573
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XV, 539 S.)
,
26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Queer interventions
Series Statement:
Ashgate research companions
Parallel Title:
Print version The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
DDC:
306.76/601
Keywords:
Queer theory
;
Homosexuality Philosophy
;
Gender identity Philosophy
Abstract:
This Companion provides an interdisciplinary and international overview to the increasingly important field of queer studies. The team of respected and experienced scholars and activists foregrounds and promotes the many intersections of queer studies in an accessible, clear and engaging style which will be an indispensable tool for scholars and students alike
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The 'q' Word; Part I IDENTITY; 1 On Being Post-Normal: Heterosexuality after Queer Theory; 2 Why Five Sexes Are Not Enough; 3 'The Scholars Formerly Known as …': Bisexuality, Queerness and Identity Politics; 4 The Curious Persistence of Lesbian Studies; 5 Making it Like a Drag King: Female-to-Male Masculinity and the Trans Culture of Boyhood; 6 Phenomenology, Embodiment and the Political Efficacy of Contingent Identity Claims; 7 Queer Posthumanism: Cyborgs, Animals, Monsters, Perverts; Part II DISCOURSE
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Queering, Cripping9 Generic Definitions: Taxonomies of Identity in AIDS Discourse; 10 Rethinking the Place of Queer and the Erotic within Geographies of Sexualities; 11 To 'Play the Sodomits': A Query in Five Actions; 12 Queer, but Classless?; 13 Queer-in the Sociology of Sport; 14 'Things That Have the Potential to Go Terribly Wrong': Homosexuality, Paedophilia and the Kincora Boys' Home Scandal; Part III NORMATIVITY; 15 Queer Theory Goes to Taiwan; 16 Queer Theory Meets Archaeology: Disrupting Epistemological Privilege and Heteronormativity in Constructing the Past
Description / Table of Contents:
17 A Queer Case of Judicial Diversity: Sexuality, Law and Judicial Studies18 Queerying Lesbian and Gay Psychology's 'Coming of Age': Was the Past Just Kids' Stuff?; 19 'Nothing to Hide … Nothing to Fear': Discriminatory Surveillance and Queer Visibility in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; 20 Biologically Queer; 21 The New Queer Cartoon; 22 Post-Queer Considerations; Part IV RELATIONALITY; 23 Intimate Counter-Normativities: A Queer Analysis of Personal Life in the Early Twenty-First Century; 24 Queer Middle Ages; 25 Smacking My Bitch Up: Queer or What?
Description / Table of Contents:
26 'Quare' Studies,or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother27 'A Strange Perversity': Bringing Out Desire between Women in Frankenstein; 28 Sex and the Lubricative Ethic; 29 All Foucault and No Knickers: Assessing Claims for a Queer-Political Erotics; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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