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Overview

QUEER CULTURES features the most influential works in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT), and Queer Studies of the past twenty years, including essays by such prominent scholars as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, and Michael Warner. The essays and personal narratives in this anthology present various, sometimes opposing, points-of-view across the disciplines of philosophy, literature, history, art, film, television, web and print media, political science, anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology.

QUEER CULTURES features:

  • Questions for reflection, discussion, and writing
  • Reading bibliographies
  • Film, web, and writing assignments
  • Social activism projects geared toward issues raised in each chapter
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780130416537
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall
  • Publication date: 10/9/2003
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 800
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sect. 1 What is Queer Theory? 1
After Stonewall 3
Excerpt from Lesbians Talk Queer Notions 38
Making It Perfectly Queer 51
Excerpt from "Axiomatic" 67
Who Is That Queer Queer? Exploring Norms around Sexuality, Race, and Class in Queer Theory 83
Sect. 2 The Sociopolitical Origins of Queer 99
AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification 101
Queers Read This: I Hate Straights 138
This is about People Dying: The Tactics of Early Act Up and Lesbian Avengers in New York City 149
Right On, Girlfriend 177
Sect. 3 Queer Formulations and the Politics of Identity 197
Some Queer Notions About Race 199
Queer Aztlan: The Re-formation of Chicano Tribe 224
Inclusion, Exclusion and Occlusion: The Queer Idea of Asian Pacific American-ness 239
Lost in Space: Queer Geography and the Politics of Location 254
Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma 279
Sect. 4 (DE)/(RE) Gendering Sexualities 304
Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality 304
Imitation and Gender Insubordination 354
My Dangerous Desires: Falling in Love with Stone Butches: Passing Women and Girls (Who Are Guys) Who Catch My Eye 371
Dichotomies and Displacement: Bisexuality in Queer Theory and Politics 385
Queering the Binaries: Transituated Identities, Bodies, and Sexualities 409
Sect. 5 Cinema Queerite and Queer Pop Culture 427
There's Something Queer Here 428
Just A Gigolo? Narcissism, Nellyism and the 'New Man' Theme 450
Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead 462
Straddling the Screen: Bisexual Spectatorship and Contemporary Narrative Film 483
Transgender Mirrors: Queering Sexual Difference 507
Sect. 6 Queer Fictions of the Past 525
Boys's Own Stories and New Spellings of My Name: Coming Out and Other Myths of Queer Positionality 526
Queer Fictions of Stonewall 561
Historical Explanations and Rationalizations for Transgenderism 592
Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood 622
Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens 660
Sect. 7 Queer Theories/Social Realities 688
Spirit and Passion 689
Alliances and Coalitions: Nonidentity Politics 700
Queer Visibility in Commodity Culture 720
Teamwork 758
Beyond Gay Marriage 768
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