Homofiles
Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies
Published on 9. September 2011
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-0-7391-3191-6 (ISBN)
Description
Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. The contributors' essays address the various relationships between sexuality and scholarship within their respective programs, and present arguments on topics ranging from queer literature to police brutality. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intellectuals-in-training within the academy, and the contributors both analyze and challenge the structures of academia that they are working in as cultural critics.
Reviews / Votes
In essays filled with personal insight and theoretical rigor, Homofiles introduces us to a new generation of queer graduate students. This book proves once again how much LGBT studies has to say not just about the unequal power relations endemic in academia, but the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and embodiment we grapple with daily. -- Sarah E. Chinn, director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center at CUNY Provocative, original, and moving. With this new book, Battis has assembled the next generation of scholars who are troubling the soul of queer studies. -- Kevin Kumashiro, author of The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right has Framed the Debate on America's SchoolsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-3191-6 (9780739131916)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Persons
Jes Battis is assistant professor of English at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction: Homofiles: Desire, Praxis, and Pedagogy Part 2 Part One Chapter 3 Chapter One: There Are Transsexuals in Our Middle Schools! Chapter 4 Chapter Two: "It Is about Geography and Memory": Coming to Voice with/in/out Academia Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence Chapter 6 Chapter Four: "A New Hope": The Psychic Life of Passing Part 7 Part Two Chapter 8 Chapter Five: Fuck/The Police: Queering Narratives of Police Brutality in Post 9-11 New York Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Read at Your Own Risk Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: Realizations about Connections: A Literacy/Teaching Narrative Part 11 Part Three Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Not Fab Enough: Consumer Gay Identity and the Politics of Representation Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: Don't Dream It, Be It: Cult(ure), Fetishism and Spectacle in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and King Lear Chapter 14 Chapter Ten: Suddenly Last Semester: What Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer Taught Me About Queer Dis-Ease Chapter 15 About the Contributors