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Author Berger, Anne-Emmanuelle, 1958- author.

Title The queer turn in feminism : identities, sexualities, and the theater of gender / by Anne Emmanuelle Berger ; translated by Catherine Porter
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Series Commonalities
Commonalities.
Contents Parabasis (before the act) -- Queens and queers : the theater of gender in "America" -- Paradoxes of visibility in/and contemporary identity politics -- The ends of an idiom, or sexual difference in translation -- Roxana's legacy : feminism and capitalism in the West
Summary At a time when gender and queer theories appear to American proponents to have exhausted themselves, they are hailed in France as something new. Yet, more than any area of late 20th-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. The author uses this particular temporal and intellectual juncture to look again at a certain history and theory of gender and sexuality
Notes Translated from the French
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-221) and index
Notes Translated from the French
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 4, 2013)
Subject Feminist theory.
Gender identity.
Queer theory.
Gender Identity
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Feminist theory
Gender identity
Queer theory
Form Electronic book
Author Porter, Catherine (Translator), translator
LC no. 2013028755
ISBN 0823253856
9780823253852
9780823253869
0823253864
9780823260904
0823260909
9780823253883
0823253880
9780823253890
0823253899
Other Titles Grand théâtre du genre. English