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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973013703321

Titolo

Queer ecologies : sex, nature, politics, desire / / edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-282-97570-6

9786612975707

0-253-00474-8

Edizione

[First edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 410 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

SandilandsCatriona

EricksonBruce

Disciplina

306.76/601

Soggetti

Queer theory

Sex

Human ecology

sexuality

human ecology

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Gay Studies

PHILOSOPHY - Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Theories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: a genealogy of queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson -- Eluding capture: the science, culture, and pleasure of "queer" animals / Stacy Alaimo -- Enemy of the species / Ladelle McWhorter -- Penguin family values: the nature of planetary environmental reproductive justice / Noel Sturgeon -- Queernaturecultures / David Bell -- Non-white reproduction and same-sex eroticism: queer acts against nature / Andil Gosine -- From jook joints to sisterspace: the role of nature in lesbian alternative environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger -- Polluted politics? Confronting toxic discourse, sex panic, and eco-normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Undoing nature: coalition building as queer



environmentalism / Katie Hogan -- Fragments, edges, and matrices: retheorizing the formation of a so-called gay ghetto through queering landscape ecology / Gordon Brent Ingram -- "The place, promised, that has not yet been": the nature of dislocation and desire in Adrienne Rich's Your native land/your life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against nature / Rachel Stein -- "fucking close to water": queering the production of the nation / Bruce Erickson -- Melancholy natures, queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Biophilia, creative involution, and the ecological future of queer desire / Dianne Chisholm.

Sommario/riassunto

As a whole, Queer Ecologies stands as a powerful corrective to views that equate "natural" with "straight" while "queer" is held to be against nature.