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9780814798416

Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814798416

  • ISBN10:

    0814798411

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-09-01
  • Publisher: New York University Press

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This book is a succint, pedagogically designed introduction. As classroom text, Sullivan's work is heady with vibrant debate and slim heuristics; her intellectual clarity is stunning. -Choice A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory explores the ways in which 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. Sullivan goes on to provide a detailed overview of the complex ways in which queer theory has been employed, covering a diversity of key topics including: race, sadomasochism, straight sex, fetishism, community, popular culture, transgender, and performativity. Each chapter focuses on a distinct issue or topic, provides a critical analysis of the specific ways in which it has been responded to by critics (including Freud, Foucault, Derrida, Judith Butler, Jean-Luc Nancy, Adrienne Rich and Laura Mulvey), introduces key terms, and uses contemporary cinematic texts as examples.

Author Biography

Nikki Sullivan is a lecturer in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University

Table of Contents

Preface v
The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness
1(21)
Assimilation or Liberation, Sexuality or Gender?
22(15)
Queer: A Question of Being or A Question of Doing?
37(20)
Queer Race
57(24)
Performance, Performativity, Parody, and Politics
81(18)
Transsexual Empires and Transgender Warriors
99(20)
Queering `Straight' Sex
119(17)
Community and its Discontents
136(15)
Sadomasochism as Resistance?
151(17)
Fetishism(s) and the Politics of Perversion
168(21)
Queering Popular Culture
189(18)
Bibliography 207(18)
Index 225

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