Love and Money

by Henderson, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780814790571
• ISBN10: 0814790577
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-01-28
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

Love and Moneyargues that we can't understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution,Love and Moneyoffers supple approaches to capturing class experience and class form in and around queerness. Contrary to familiar dismissals, not every queer television or movie character is like Will Truman onWill and Gracerich, white, healthy, professional, detached from politics, community, and sex. Through ethnographic encounters with readers and cultural producers and such texts asBoys Don't Cry,Brokeback Mountain,By Hook or By Crook, and wedding announcements in theNew York Times,Love and Moneysees both queerness and class across a range of idioms and practices in everyday life. How, it asks, do readers of Dorothy Allison's novels use her work to find a queer class voice? How do gender and race broker queer class fantasy? How do independent filmmakers cross back and forth between industry and queer sectors, changing both places as they go and challenging queer ideas about bad commerce and bad taste? With an eye to the nuances and harms of class difference in queerness and a wish to use culture to forge queer and class affinities,Love and Moneyreturns class and its politics to the study of queer life.