Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity

by Fryer,David Ross

• ISBN13: 9781594513596
• ISBN10: 1594513597
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-07-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Queer theory and the gay rights movement historically have been in tension, with the former critiquing precisely the identity politics on which the latter relies. Yet neither queer theory, in its predominately poststructuralist form, nor the gay rights movement, with its conservative 'œinclusionary' aspirations, has adequately addressed questions of identity or the political struggles against normativity that mark the lives of so many queer people. Taking on issues of race, sex, gender, and what he calls 'œthe ethics of identity,' Fryer offers a new take on queer theory'”one rooted in phenomenology rather than poststructuralism'”that seeks to put postnormative thinking at its center. This provocative book gives us a glimpse of what 'œthinking queer' can look like in our 'œposthumanist age.'

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
On the Possibilities of Posthumanism, or How to Think Queerly in an Anti-black World	p. 1
African-American Queer Studies	p. 13
Toward a Phenomenology of Gender Identity	p. 41
What Levinas and Psychoanalysis Can Teach Each Other, or How to Be a Mensch without Going Meshugah	p. 59
Reading Responsibility in The Hours: Two Accounts of Subjectivity	p. 71
Notes	p. 87
References	p. 95
About the Author	p. 99
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