Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)

by Yep; Gust

• ISBN13: 9781560232766
• ISBN10: 1560232765
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Get a queer perspective on communication theory! Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) is a conversation starter, sparking smart talk about sexuality in the communication discipline and beyond. Edited by members of The San Francisco Radical Trio,” the book integrates current queer theory, research, and interventions to create a critical lens with which to view the damaging effects of heteronormativity on personal, social, and cultural levels, and to see the possibilities for change through social and cultural transformation. Queer Theory and Communication represents a commitment to positive social change by imagining different social realities and sharing ideas, passions, and lived experiences. As the communication discipline begins to recognize queer theory as a vital and viable intellectual movement equal to that of Gay and Lesbian studies, the opportunity is here to take current queer scholarship beyond conference papers and presentations. Queer Theory and Communication has five objectives: 1) to integrate and disseminate current queer scholarship to a larger audience-academic and nonacademic; 2) to examine the potential implications of queer theory in human communication theory and research in a variety of contexts; 3) to stimulate dialogue among queer scholars; 4) to set a preliminary research agenda; and 5) to explore the implications of the scholarship in cultural politics and personal empowerment and transformation. Queer Theory and Communication boasts an esteemed panel of academics, artists, activists, editors, and essayists. Contributors include: John Nguyet Erni, editor of Asian Media Studies and Research& Analysis Program Board member for GLAAD Joshua Gamson, author of Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity Sally Miller Gerahart, author, activist, and actress Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity David M. Halperin, author of How to Do the History of Homosexuality E. Patrick Johnson, editor of Black Queer Studies Kevin Kumashiro, author of Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy Thomas Nakayama, co-editor of Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity A. Susan Owen, author of Bad Girls: Cultural Politics and Media Representations of Transgressive Women William F. Pinar, author of Autobiography, Politics, and Sexuality,and editor of Queer Theory in Education Ralph Smith, co-author of Progay/antigay: The Rhetorical War over Sexuality Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) is an essential addition to the critical consciousness of anyone involved in communication, media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and the study of human sexuality, whether in the classroom, the boardroom, or the bedroom.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xix
Foreword: My Trip to Queer	xxi
Sally Miller Gearhart
I. RESEARCH AND INTERVENTIONS
Introduction: Queering Communication: Starting the Conversation	1	(10)
Gust A. Yep
Karen E. Lovaas
John P. Elia
The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies: Notes on Injury, Healing, and Queer World-Making	11	(50)
Gust A. Yep
Queering Relationships: Toward a Paradigmatic Shift	61	(26)
John P. Elia
Speaking to Silence: Toward Queering Nonverbal Communication	87	(22)
Karen E. Lovaas
Racisms, Heterosexisms, and Identities: A Semiotic Phenomenology of Self-Understanding	109	(20)
Jacqueline M. Martinez
Queer Criticism and Sexual Normativity: The Case of Pee-wee Herman	129	(18)
R. Anthony Slagle
Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn	147	(24)
Wenshu Lee
Immigrant Closets: Tactical-Micro-Practices-in-the-Hyphen	171	(22)
Diana Fisher
Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Queer Vietnamese Support Group	193	(24)
Gina Masequesmay
The Specter of the Black Fag: Parody, Blackness, and Hetero/Homosexual B(r)others	217	(18)
E. Patrick Johnson
The Queering of Swan Lake: A New Male Gaze for the Performance of Sexual Desire	235	(22)
Kent G. Drummond
Queering Marriage: An Ideographic Interrogation of Heteronormative Subjectivity	257	(20)
Davin Grindstaff
Transgender DeKalb: Observations of an Advocacy Campaign	277	(20)
John R. Butler
Disciplining ``Sextext'': Queers, Fears, and Communication Studies	297	(22)
A. Susan Owen
Nextext	319	(16)
Thomas K. Nakayama
Frederick C. Corey
II. REFLECTIONS
Reflections on Queer Theory: Disparate Points of View	335	(4)
John P. Elia
Karen E. Lovaas
Gust A. Yep
The Normalization of Queer Theory	339	(6)
David M. Halperin
Queer Theory, Gay Movements, and Political Communication	345	(4)
Ralph R. Smith
Querying Queer Theory Again (or Queer Theory as Drag Performance)	349	(4)
Bryant Alexander
Queer Theory and Performance	353	(4)
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
Queer Theory in Education	357	(4)
William F. Pinar
Reflections on Queer Studies and Queer Pedagogy	361	(4)
Judith Halberstam
Queer Ideals in Education	365	(4)
Kevin K. Kumashiro
Sounds Queer to Me: The Politics of Disillusionment	369	(6)
Bettina Heinz
Queer Theory, New Millennium	375	(6)
Lisa Henderson
Run Queer Asia Run	381	(4)
John Nguyet Erni
Reflections on Queer Theory and Communication	385	(6)
Joshua Gamson
III. RESOURCES
More Queer: Resources on Queer Theory	391	(10)
John P. Elia
Catherine Swanson
Amanda R. Goldberg
Index	401