Social Text What's Queer About Queer Studies Now?

by Eng, David L.; Halberstam, Judith; Munoz, Jose Esteban

• ISBN13: 9780822366218
• ISBN10: 0822366215
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This special double issue of Social Text reassesses the political utility of the term queer. The mainstreaming of gay and lesbian identity - as a mass-mediated consumer lifestyle as well as an embattled legal category - demands a renewal of queer studies that also considers the global crises of the late twentieth century. These crises, which are shaping national manifestations of sexual, racial, and gendered hierarchies, include the ascendance and triumph of neo-liberalism; the clash of religious fundamentalisms, nationalisms, and patriotisms; and the return to "moral values" and "family values" as deterrents to political debate, economic redistribution, and cultural dissent.In sixteen timely essays, the contributors map out an urgent intellectual and political terrain for queer studies and the contemporary politics of identity, family, and kinship. Collectively, these essays examine the limits of queer epistemology, the potentials of queer diasporas, and the emergence of queer liberalism. They rethink queer critique in relation to the war on terrorism and the escalation of U.S. imperialism; the devolution of civil rights and the rise of the prison-industrial complex; the continued dismantling of the welfare state; the recoding of freedom in terms of secularization, domesticity, and marriage; and the politics of citizenship, migration, and asylum in a putatively post-racial and post-identity age.

Table of Contents

What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?
David L. Eng
Judith Halberstam
Jose Esteban Munoz
Introduction: What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?	1	(18)
David L. Eng
Judith Halberstam
Jose Esteban Munoz
Punk'd Theory	19	(16)
Tavia Nyong'o
The Joy of the Castrated Boy	35	(22)
Joon Oluchi Lee
Time Binds, or, Erotohistoriography	57	(12)
Elizabeth Freeman
Tarrying with the Normative: Queer Theory and Black History	69	(16)
Amy Villarejo
Of Our Normative Strivings: African American Studies and the Histories of Sexuality	85	(16)
Roderick A. Ferguson
Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family: Reviewing the Case for Homosexual Asylum in the Context of Family Rights	101	(20)
Chandan Reddy
Queer Times, Queer Assemblages	121	(20)
Jasbir K. Puar
Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City	141	(16)
Martin F. Manalansan IV
Bollywood Spectacles: Queer Diasporic Critique in the Aftermath of 9/11	157	(14)
Gayatri Gopinath
You Can Have My Brown Body and Eat It, Too!	171	(22)
Hiram Perez
JJ Chinois's Oriental Express, or, How a Suburban Heartthrob Seduced Red America	193	(26)
Karen Tongson
Shame and White Gay Masculinity	219	(16)
Judith Halberstam
Gay Rights versus Queer Theory: What Is Left of Sodomy after Lawrence v. Texas?	235	(16)
Teemu Ruskola
Uncivil Wrongs: Race, Religion, Hate, and Incest in Queer Politics	251	(24)
Michael Cobb
Policing Privacy, Migrants, and the Limits of Freedom	275	(10)
Nayan Shah
Sex + Freedom = Regulation: Why?	285
Janet R. Jakobsen