| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) |
| Contents |
The social construction of same-sex desire: sin, crime, sickness -- Assimilation or liberation, sexuality or gender? -- Queer: a question of being or a question of doing? -- Queer race -- Performance, performativity, parody and politics -- Transsexual empires and transgender warriors -- Queering "straight" sex -- Community and its discontents -- Sadomasochism as resistance? -- Fetishism(s) and the politics of perversion -- Queering popular culture |
| Summary |
"Explores how 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. It goes on to provide a detailed overview of the complex ways in which Queer Theory has been practised. Each chapter focuses on an issue or topic, provides a critical analysis of the specific ways in which it has been responded to by critics (including Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Adrienne Rich and Laura Mulvey), and introduces key terms. Each chapter also discusses contemporary cinematic texts."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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 |
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Description based on print version record |
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Homosexuality -- Philosophy
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Queer theory.
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Electronic books.
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Homosexuality.
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Homosexuality
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homosexuality.
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e-books.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Homosexuality
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Electronic books
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Homosexuality -- Philosophy
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Queer theory
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Geschlechterforschung
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Geschlechtsidentität
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Homoseksualiteit.
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Theorieën.
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Homosexualité -- Philosophie.
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Identité sexuelle.
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Sexualité.
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Transsexualisme.
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Sadomasochisme.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474472944 |
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147447294X |
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