A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (500 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76; 306.76/6; 306.766
• Soggetto topico: Gay and lesbian studies; Sexual minorities; Queer studies; Queer theory; LGBTQ people
• Altri autori: HaggertyGeorge E McGarryMolly
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 FUTURITIES6 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 Relations17 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 PragmatismIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 academ
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies
• ISBN: 1-78268-336-4; 0-470-68057-1; 0-470-69086-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996208215403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions in cultural studies.