ISBN:
9781566398275
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (192 p.)
Series Statement:
Queer Politics Queer Theories
Series Statement:
Queer Politics Queer Theories Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Sexual Strangers : Gays, Lesbians, and Dilemmas of Citizenship
DDC:
305.9/0664/0973
Keywords:
Citizenship ; United States
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Gay rights ; United States
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Homosexuality ; Political aspects ; United States
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Lesbianism ; Political aspects ; United States
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Political rights ; United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Is the United States a heterosexual regime? If it is, how may we understand the political position of those who cannot or will not align themselves with heterosexuality? With these provocative questions, Shane Phelan raises the issue of whether lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people can be seen as citizens at all. Can citizenship be made queer? Or does citizenship require the exclusion of those who are regarded as queer to preserve the "equality" that it promises? In Sexual Strangers, Shane Phelan argues that, in the United States, queers are strangers -- not exactly the
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Citizens and Strangers; 2. Structures of Strangeness: Bodies, Passions, and Citizenship; 3. Structures of Strangeness: Citizenship and Kinship; 4. Negotiating Strangeness: Assimilation and Visibility; 5. Strangers among "Us": Secondary Marginalization and "LGBT" Politics; 6. Queering Citizenship; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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