Queer Cultures

by Carlin, Deborah; Digrazia, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780130416537
• ISBN10: 0130416533
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

QUEER CULTURES features the most influential works in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT), and Queer Studies of the past twenty years, including essays by such prominent scholars as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, and Michael Warner. The essays and personal narratives in this anthology present various, sometimes opposing, points-of-view across the disciplines of philosophy, literature, history, art, film, television, web and print media, political science, anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology. QUEER CULTURES features: bull; bull;Questions for reflection, discussion, and writing bull;Reading bibliographies bull;Film, web, and writing assignments bull;Social activism projects geared toward issues raised in each chapter

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. WHAT IS “QUEER THEORY?”

1. John D'Emilio, “After Stonewall.”
2. Steven Epstein, excerpt from “Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism.”
3. Steven Seidman, excerpt from “From gay ethnicity to queer politics: The renewal of gay radicalism in the United States.”
4. Cherry Smyth, excerpt from Lesbians Talk Queer Notions.
5. Lisa Duggan, “Making It Perfectly Queer.”
6. Michel Foucault, excerpt from The History of Sexuality, Volume One.
7. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, excerpt from “Axiomatic.”
8. Suzanna Danuta Walters, “From Here to Queer: Radical Feminism, Postmodernism, and the Lesbian Menace (Or, Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Fag?).”
9. Jeffrey Escoffier, “Inside the Ivory Closet: The Challenges Facing Lesbian and Gay Studies.”
10. Ruth Goldman, “Who Is That Queer Queer? Exploring Norms around Sexuality, Race, and Class in Queer Theory.”
11. Elizabeth A. Povinelli and George Chauncey, “Thinking Sexuality Transnationally.”
12. Forum “On the Political Implications of Using the Term 'Queer,` as in 'Queer Politics,` 'Queer Studies,` and 'Queer Pedagogy`.”
13. Timothy Buttercup, “Queer Queer? Queer!”

II. THE SOCIOPOLITICAL ORIGINS OF QUEER.

14. Neil Miller, “The 1980s: The Age of AIDS.”
15. “PWA Coalition Portfolio.”
16. Paula Treichler, “AIDS, Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification.”
17. Anonymous Queers, “Queers Read This: I Hate Straights.”
18. Allan Bérubé and Jeffrey Escoffier, “Queer/Nation.”
19. Interview with Maxine Wolf by Laraine Sommella, “This Is about People Dying: The Tactics of Early ACT UP and Lesbian Avengers in New York City.”
21. Michelangelo Signorile, “Outing, Part I.”
22. Douglas Crimp, “Right On, Girlfriend!”
23. Tim Miller, “My Queer Body.”

III. QUEER FORMULATIONS & THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY.

24. Frank Browning, “Do Gays Exist.”
25. Alisa Solomon, “Breaking Out” and “Identity Crisis: Queer Politics in the Age of Possibilities” Interview with Marcellus Blount, Gregg Bordowitz, Holly Hughes, Jeff Nunokawa and Eve Sedgwick.
26. Arlene Stein, “Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism.”
27. Samuel R, Delaney, “Some Queer Notions About Race.”
28. Cherríe Moraga, “Queer Aztlán: The Re-formation of Chicano Tribe.”
29. Yukiko Hanawa, “inciting sites of political interventions: queen `n asian.”
30. Urvashi Vaid, “Inclusion, Exclusion and Occlusion: The Queer Idea of Asian Pacific American-ness.”
31. Sherrie A. Inness, “Lost in Space: Queer Geography and the Politics of Location.”
32. Ann Powers, “Queer in the Streets, Straight in the Streets: Notes on Passing.”
33. Joshua Gamson, “Must Identity Movements Self- Destruct: A Queer Dilemma.”

IV. (DE)/(RE)GENDERING SEXUALITIES.

34. Gayle S. Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.”
35. Will Roscoe, “Gender Without Sex: Toward A Theory of Gender Diversity.”
36. Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.”
37. Amber Hollibaugh, “My Dangerous Desires: Falling in Love with Stone Butches; Passing Women and Girls (Who Are Guys) Who Catch My Eye.”
38. Judith Halberstam, “An Introduction to Female Masculinity.”
39. Alex Robertson Textor, “Marilyn, Mayhem, and the Mantrap: Some Particularities of Male Femme.”
40. Sandra Lee Golvin, “Passage.”
41. Stacy Young, “Dichotomies and Displacement: Bisexuality in Queer Theory and Politics.”
42. Carol A. Queen, “Strangers at Home: Bisexuals in the Queer Movement.”
43. Sunfrog, “Pansies Against Patriarchy: Gender Blur, Bisexual Men, and Queer Liberation.”
44. Michelle T. Clinton, “Almost a Dyke: In Search of the Perfect Bisexual.”
45. Jason Cromwell, “Queering the Binaries: Transituated Identities, Bodies, and Sexualities.”
46. Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage.”
47. David Valentine and Riki Anne Wilchins, “One Percent on the Burn Chart: Gender, Genitals, and Hermaphrodites With Attitude.”
48. Jeffrey Hilbert, “The Politics of Drag.”
49. Richard McCann, “My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame.”

V. CINEMA QUEERITÉ AND QUEER POP CULTURE.

50. Alexander Doty, “There's Something Queer Here.”
51. Paul Burston, “Just A Gigolo? Narcissism, Nellyism and the 'New Man` Theme.”
52. Patricia White, “Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead.”
53. Maria Pramaggiore, “Straddling the Screen: Bisexual Spectatorship and Contemporary Narrative Film.”
54. Chris Straayer, “Transgender Mirrors: Queering Sexual Difference.”
55. José Arroyo, “Death Desire and Identity: The Political Unconscious of 'New Queer Cinema`.”
56. B. Ruby Rich, “When Difference Is (More Than) Skin Deep.”
57. Elyce Rae Helford, “Feminism, Queer Studies, and the Sexual Politics of Xena: Warrior Princess.”
58. Emmanuel Cooper, “Queer Spectacles.”
59. Ian Barnard, “Queerzines and the Fragmentation of Art, Community, Identity, and Politics.”
60. Linda Dittmar, “The Straight Goods: Lesbian Chic and Identity Capital on a Not-So-Queer Planet.”

VI. QUEER FICTIONS OF THE PAST.

61. Steven Maynard, “'Respect Your Elders, Know Your Past`: History and the Queer Theorists.”
62. Laura Doan and Sarah Waters, “Making Up Lost Time: Contemporary Lesbian Writing and the Invention of History.”
63. Robert McRuer, “Boys' Own Stories and New Spellings of My Name: Coming Out and Other Myths of Queer Positionality.”
64. Scott Bravmann, “Queer fictions of Stonewall.”
65. Elizabeth Laprovsky and Madeline D. Davis, “'Maybe 'Cause Things Were Harder … You Had to Be More Friendly`: Race and Class in the Lesbian Community of the 1950s.”
66. Gordene Olga MacKenzie, “Historical Explanations and Rationalizations for Transgenderism.”
67. George Chauncey, “Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood.”
68. Siobhan B. Somerville, “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body.”
69. Alan Sinfield, “Queer Thinking.”
70. Terry Castle, “The Diaries of Anne Lister.”
71. Randolph Trumbach, “The Birth of the Queen: Sodomy and the Emergence of Gender Equality in Modern Culture, 1660-1750.”
72. Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass, “Fetishizing Gender: Constructing the Hermaphrodite in Renaissance Europe.”
73. David M. Halperin, “Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens.”

VII. QUEER THEORIES/SOCIAL REALITIES.

Struggles & Strategies.

74. Scott Tucker, “Fighting Words: An Open Letter to Queers and Radicals.”
75. Valerie Lehr, “Radical Democracy and Queer Identity.”
76. Carmen Vazquez, “Spirit and Passion.”
77. Shane Phelan, “Alliances and Coalitions: Nonidentity Politics.”

Homo Economies and Class in U.S. Culture.

78. John D'Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity.”
79. M.V. Lee Badgett, “Thinking Homo/Economically.”
80. Rosemary Hennessy, “Queer Visibility in Commodity Culture.”
81. Joanna Kadi, “Homophobic Workers or Elitist Queers?”

The (Queer) Young and the Restless.

82. A. Damien Martin and Emery S. Hetrick, “The Stigmatization of the Gay and Lesbian Adolescent.”
83. Linnea Due, “Queer High and the House of Bazaar.”
84. Lisa Walter, “"Teamwork.”
85. Mark A. Shaw, “Queerbait.”

Questioning “Community” : Ties That Bind.

86. Ian Barnard, “Fuck Community, or Why I Support Gay- Bashing.”
87. Jonathan Dollimore, “Too Hot for Yale?”
88. Caleb Crain, “Pleasure: Queer Theorists and Gay Journalists Wrestle Over the Politics of Sex.”
89. Michael Warner, “"Beyond Gay Marriage.”