Queer Studies
An Interdiciplinary Reader
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-631-22917-9 (ISBN)
Description
Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays that over the past two decades have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital and important areas of study in both the humanities and social sciences.
Brings together important essays that have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital areas of study in the humanities and social sciences.
Includes an introductory essay by the editors that provides a context for this pivotal scholarship and promotes dialogue across disciplines.
Discusses key issues in the field, including sexual politics, cultural construction of sexuality, transnationalism, race, community, sexual citizenship and the nation-state.
Functions as a primary text for introductory as well as advanced courses, as a general introduction to the field, and as a scholarly resource.
Brings together important essays that have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital areas of study in the humanities and social sciences.
Includes an introductory essay by the editors that provides a context for this pivotal scholarship and promotes dialogue across disciplines.
Discusses key issues in the field, including sexual politics, cultural construction of sexuality, transnationalism, race, community, sexual citizenship and the nation-state.
Functions as a primary text for introductory as well as advanced courses, as a general introduction to the field, and as a scholarly resource.
Reviews / Votes
"There is much here that is fascinating and adds to our knowledge of the multiplicity of ways in which people experience and live their sexualities." Sexualities"Refusing the easy collapse of queer studies into gay and lesbian studies, Corber and Valocchi offer scholars and activists a collection of essays that maps the complexities of non-normative desires as they are produced in and through social institutions, economic practices, disciplinary structures, and cultural discourse. In the process, they reclaim the political hope that queer studies is a radical intervention into regimes of being and knowing!" Robyn Wiegman, Duke University
"Queer Studies may very well be the first Reader that students and professors should consult to get an overview of the field. Interdisciplinary, ambitious, and accessible, the volume is a fine contribution to this dynamic field." Steven Seidman, University at Albany, State University of New York
"There is much here that is fascinating and adds to our knowledge of the multiplicity of ways in which people experience and live their sexualities" Richard Dunphy, University of Dundee
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-22917-9 (9780631229179)
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Robert J. Corber | Stephen Valocchi
Queer Studies - an Interdisciplinary Reader
Book
12/2002
Blackwell Publishers
€138.91
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Persons
Robert J. Corber is Associate Professor of American Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at Trinity College, Hartford. He is author of In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America (1993) and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (1997).
Stephen Valocchi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Hartford. He has published widely on the welfare state and on social movements in the United States, in particular the gay liberation movement. His essays have appeared in Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, and Critical Sociology.
Stephen Valocchi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Hartford. He has published widely on the welfare state and on social movements in the United States, in particular the gay liberation movement. His essays have appeared in Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, and Critical Sociology.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I Practices, Identities, Communities
1 The Trouble with Harry Thaw 21
Martha M. Umphrey
2 Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism 31
Cheryl Chase
3 Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS 46
Cathy J. Cohen
4 Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Women or Men 61
C. Jacob Hale
Part II the Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality
5 The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America 73
Lisa Duggan
6 The Returns of Cleopatra Jones 88
Jennifer DeVere Brody
7 (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler 102
Laura Kipnis
Part III Sexual Citizenship and the Nation-State
8 Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity 121
Nayan Shah
9 The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895 142
John Howard
10 The Brandon Teena Archive 159
Judith Halberstam
11 Sex in Public 170
Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner
Part IV Transnationalizing Sexualities
12 Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan 187
Jennifer Robertson
13 Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion 206
Gayatri Gopinath
14 The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia 218
Tom Boellstorff
15 A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes 237
Don Kulick
Index 255
Introduction 1
Part I Practices, Identities, Communities
1 The Trouble with Harry Thaw 21
Martha M. Umphrey
2 Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism 31
Cheryl Chase
3 Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS 46
Cathy J. Cohen
4 Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Women or Men 61
C. Jacob Hale
Part II the Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality
5 The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America 73
Lisa Duggan
6 The Returns of Cleopatra Jones 88
Jennifer DeVere Brody
7 (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler 102
Laura Kipnis
Part III Sexual Citizenship and the Nation-State
8 Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity 121
Nayan Shah
9 The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895 142
John Howard
10 The Brandon Teena Archive 159
Judith Halberstam
11 Sex in Public 170
Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner
Part IV Transnationalizing Sexualities
12 Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan 187
Jennifer Robertson
13 Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion 206
Gayatri Gopinath
14 The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia 218
Tom Boellstorff
15 A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes 237
Don Kulick
Index 255