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

by Haggerty, George E.; McGarry, Molly

• ISBN13: 9781405113298
• ISBN10: 1405113294
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-24
• 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. The Companion breaks new ground for scholarship on gender and sexuality. Recognizing the multidisciplinary nature of the field, the editors gather new essays by established and emerging scholars, addressing the politics, economics, history, and cultural impact of sexuality. The book engages the future of Queer Studies by asking what sexuality stands in for, what work it does, and how it continues to structure discussions in various academic disciplines as well as contemporary politics.

Author Biography

George E. Haggerty is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form (1989), Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century (1998) and Men In Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century (1999). He has also edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature (1995) and Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (2000). His latest book is Queer Gothic (2006).

Molly McGarry is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. She is co-author (with Fred Wasserman) of Becoming Visible and author of Ghosts of Futures Past (2007).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Queer Politics in the Time of War and Shopping or Why Sex? Why Now?	p. 15
Sex, Secularism, and the "War on Terrorism": The Role of Sexuality in Multi-Issue Organizing	p. 17
Freedom and the Racialization of Intimacy: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism	p. 38
"No Atheists in the Fox Hole": Toward a Radical Queer Politics in a Post-9/11 World	p. 60
Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping	p. 77
Who Needs Civil Liberties?	p. 87
Histories, Genealogies, and Futurities	p. 107
The Relevance of Race for the Study of Sexuality	p. 109
The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography	p. 124
Deviant Teaching	p. 146
After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp	p. 168
Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past	p. 194
Desire for Gender	p. 215
The Desire for Gender	p. 217
Methodologies of Trans Resistance	p. 237
The History of Aphallia and the Intersexual Challenge to Sex/Gender	p. 262
Gesture and Utterance: Fragments from a Butch-Femme Archive	p. 282
Queer Belongings	p. 293
Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory	p. 295
Forgetting Family: Queer Alternatives to Oedipal Relations	p. 315
Between Friends	p. 325
Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Sancharram	p. 341
The Light That Never Goes Out: Butch Intimacies and Sub-Urban Sociabilities in "Lesser Los Angeles"	p. 355
Performing Theory or Theory in Medias Res	p. 377
"Serious Innovation": An Interview with Judith Butler	p. 379
Materiality, Pedagogy, and the Limits of Queer Visibility	p. 389
Melos, Telos, and Me: Transpositions of Identity in the Rock Musical	p. 404
Promising Complicities: On the Sex, Race, and Globalization Project	p. 430
Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism	p. 452
Index	p. 465
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