A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

by Editor: George E. Haggerty (University of California, Riverside); Editor: Molly McGarry (University of California, Riverside)

• ISBN13: 9780470680575
• ISBN10: 0470680571
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies is the first single volume survey of current discussions taking place in this rapidly developing area of study. Recognizing the multidisciplinary nature of the field, the editors gather new essays by an international team of established and emerging scholars Addresses the politics, economics, history, and cultural impact of sexuality Engages the future of queer studies by asking what sexuality stands for, what work it does, and how it continues to structure discussions in various academic disciplines as well as contemporary politics

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Queer Politics in the Time of War and Shopping; or: Why Sex? Why Now?

Sex, Secularism, and the "War on Terrorism:" The Role of Sexuality in Multi-Issue Organizing

Freedom and the Racialization of Intimacy: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism

"No Atheists in the Foxhole": Toward a Radical Queer Politics in A Post-9-11 World

Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping

Who Needs Civil Liberties?

Histories, Genealogies and Futurities

The Relevance of Race for the Study of Sexuality

The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography

Deviant Teaching

After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp

Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past

Desire for Gender

The Desire for Gender

Beyond Tolerance: Resisting Economic Injustice, Struggling for Gender Self-Determination

The History of Aphallia and the Intersexual Challenge to Sex/Gender

Gesture and Utterance: Fragments from a Butch Femme Archive

Queer Belongings

Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory

Forgetting Family: Queer Alternatives to Oedipal Relations

Between Friends

Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Sancharram

The Light That Never Goes Out: Butch Intimacies and Sub-urban Sociabilities in "Lesser Los Angeles"

Performing Theory; or, Theory in medias res

"Serious Innovation:" A Conversation with Judith Butler

Materiality, Pedagogy, and Queer Visibility

Melos, Telos, and Me: Deviations of Identity in the Rock Musical

Promising Complicities: On the Sex, Race, and Globalization Project

Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism

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