Full name: Queer Theory: An Introduction

Author: Annamarie Jagose Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Feminism, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780814742341 0814742343

The political and academic appropriation of the term queer over the last several years has marked a shift in the study of sexuality from a focus on supposedly essential categories as gay and lesbian to more fluid or queer notions of sexual identity. Yet queer is a category still in the process of formation. In Queer Theory, Annamarie Jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of same-sex love over the last century. Blending insights from prominent theorists such as Judith Butler and David Halperin, Jagose argues that queer theory's challenge is to create new ways of thinking, not only about fixed sexual identities such as heterosexual and homosexual, but also about other supposedly essential notions such as sexuality and gender and even man and woman. Similar books: Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Between Men by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick PoMoSexuals by Carol Queen Gender Trouble by Judith Butler Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler Undoing Gender by Judith Butler Feminist Theory by Bell Hooks Communion: The Female Search for Love by Bell Hooks Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo All About Love by Bell Hooks The Rejected Body by Susan Wendell Breaking Bread by Bell Hooks My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg Volatile Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz Excluded by Julia Serano Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin Gaga Feminism by J. Jack Halberstam The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton Redefining Realness by Janet Mock