A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

by Nikki Sullivan
ISBN-10:
0814798403
ISBN-13:
9780814798409
Pub. Date:
10/01/2003
Publisher:
New York University Press
ISBN-10:
0814798403
ISBN-13:
9780814798409
Pub. Date:
10/01/2003
Publisher:
New York University Press
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

by Nikki Sullivan

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Overview

Explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts

The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged in the West in the late twentieth century. Sullivan goes on to provide a detailed overview of the complex ways in which queer theory has been employed, covering a diversity of key topics including: race, sadomasochism, straight sex, fetishism, community, popular culture, transgender, and performativity. Each chapter focuses on a distinct issue or topic, provides a critical analysis of the specific ways in which it has been responded to by critics (including Freud, Foucault, Derrida, Judith Butler, Jean-Luc Nancy, Adrienne Rich and Laura Mulvey), introduces key terms, and uses contemporary cinematic texts as examples.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814798409
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/01/2003
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 9.21(d)

About the Author

Nikki Sullivan is a lecturer in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. She is the author of Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, Pleasure; and numerous articles on body modification and on sexuality.

Table of Contents

Prefacev
1The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness1
2Assimilation or Liberation, Sexuality or Gender?22
3Queer: A Question of Being or A Question of Doing?37
4Queer Race57
5Performance, Performativity, Parody, and Politics81
6Transsexual Empires and Transgender Warriors99
7Queering 'Straight' Sex119
8Community and its Discontents136
9Sadomasochism as Resistance?151
10Fetishism(s) and the Politics of Perversion168
11Queering Popular Culture189
Bibliography207
Index225

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant issues within Queer Theory and incorporates provocative and highly contentious debates around sadomasochism, fetishism, and transgenderism."

-Linnell Secomb,University of Sydney

"This book is a succinct, pedagogically designed introduction. As classroom text, Sullivan's work is heady with vibrant debate and slim heuristics; her intellectual clarity is stunning."

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