ISBN:
9780470680575
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions in cultural studies 13
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions in cultural studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies
DDC:
306.766
Keywords:
Gay and lesbian studies
;
Sexual minorities
;
Electronic books
;
Homosexualität
;
Bisexualität
;
Transsexualität
;
Geschlechtsidentität
;
Geschlechterforschung
Abstract:
A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies is the first single volume survey of current discussions taking place in this rapidly developing area of study. Recognizing the multidisciplinary nature of the field, the editors gather new essays by an international team of established and emerging scholars Addresses the politics, economics, history, and cultural impact of sexuality Engages the future of queer studies by asking what sexuality stands for, what work it does, and how it continues to structure discussions in various academic disciplines as well as contemporary politics.
Abstract:
A Companion to Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual,Transgender, and Queer Studies -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I QUEER POLITICS IN THE TIME OF WAR AND SHOPPING OR WHY SEX?WHY NOW? -- 1 Sex,Secularism,and the "War on Terrorism ":The Role of Sexuality in Multi-Issue Organizing -- 2 Freedom and the Racialization of Intimacy:Lawrence v.Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism -- 3 "No Atheists in the Fox Hole ":Toward a Radical Queer Politics in a Post-9/11 World -- 4 Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping -- 5 Who Needs Civil Liberties? -- PART I I HISTORIES,GENEALOGIES,AND FUTURITIES -- 6 The Relevance of Race for the Study of Sexuality -- 7 The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography -- 8 Deviant Teaching -- 9 After Sontag:Future Notes on Camp -- 10 Queer Spectrality:Haunting the Past -- PART I I I DESIRE FOR GENDER -- 11 The Desi re for Gender -- 12 Methodologies of Trans Resistance -- 13 The History of Aphallia and the Intersexual Challenge to Sex/Gender -- 14 Gesture and Utterance:Fragments from a Butch -Femme Archive -- PART I V QUEER BELONGINGS -- 15 Queer Belongings:Kinship Theory and Queer Theory -- 16 Forgetting Family:Queer Alternatives to Oedipal Relations -- 17 Between Friends -- 18 Queer Regions:Locating Lesbians in Sancharram -- 19 The Light That Never Goes Out:Butch Intimacies and Sub-Urban Sociabilities in "Lesser Los Angeles " -- PART V PERFORMING THEORY OR THEORY IN MEDIAS RES -- 20 "Serious Innovation ":An Interview with Judith Butler -- 21 Materiality,Pedagogy,and the Limits of Queer Visibility -- 22 Melos ,Tel os ,and Me:Transpositions of Identity in the Rock Musical -- 23 Promising Complicities:On the Sex,Race,and Globalization Project -- 24 Queerness as Horizon:Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism -- Index.
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