Queer Print Cultures
Resistance, Subversion, and Community
Will be published approx. on 13. January 2026
Book
Hardback
372 pages
978-1-4875-4401-0 (ISBN)
Description
Queer Print Cultures explores the intersections of queer studies, book history, and visual culture, challenging traditional narratives about printed objects and their cultural significance. This collection of essays examines how printed materials illuminate histories of gendered and sexual embodiment, revealing the complex interactions between texts, their creators, and their readers.
With essays from scholars, librarians, archivists, and activists, the volume amplifies voices often excluded from mainstream discussions, focusing on individuals marginalized by gender, sexuality, race, and class. Contributors investigate how queer communities have utilized various forms of media - from science fiction and romance novels to zines and social media - to articulate queer identities and navigate questions of kinship and citizenship.
In a time when expressions of identity are becoming increasingly diverse, Queer Print Cultures serves as an essential resource on the transformative power of print in shaping queer experiences and resisting societal norms.
With essays from scholars, librarians, archivists, and activists, the volume amplifies voices often excluded from mainstream discussions, focusing on individuals marginalized by gender, sexuality, race, and class. Contributors investigate how queer communities have utilized various forms of media - from science fiction and romance novels to zines and social media - to articulate queer identities and navigate questions of kinship and citizenship.
In a time when expressions of identity are becoming increasingly diverse, Queer Print Cultures serves as an essential resource on the transformative power of print in shaping queer experiences and resisting societal norms.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
28 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 161 mm
Width: 237 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
642 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-4401-0 (9781487544010)
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Persons
Javier Samper Vendrell is an assistant professor of German and core faculty in the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Vance Byrd is a Presidential Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.
Vance Byrd is a Presidential Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.
Content
Introduction: Queer Print Cultures
Vance Byrd and Javier Samper Vendrell
Part I: Queer Communities In and Around Print
1. Cryptic Margins: The Papercut Albums of Adele Schopenhauer
Catriona MacLeod
2. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Print Culture, and the Spread of Queer Ideas
Kyle Frackman
3. From the Front to the Back Page: Queer Reading in Theory and Practice
Hannah Frydman
4. Reading and Queer World-Making in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
Domenic DeSocio
Part II: Queer Subversion and Resistance
5. Texts, Sex, Paratexts: Re/Constructing Sexuality in Post-War British Science Fiction Zines
Phoenix Alexander
6. Queer Cut-Ups: The Collaged Library Books of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell
Daniel Fountain
7. The Queer Transits of Sex-Radical Porn
Elizabeth Groeneveld
8. Queer Prints, Publics, and Counterpublics in Bangladesh: The Coherent, In-Between, and Ephemeral
Saad Adnan Khan and Tanveer Hossain Anoy
Part III: Queer Media Praxis and Pedagogy
9. Collecting Queerly: Acquiring and Describing Queer Print Culture for a Rare Book Collection
Miriam Intrator
10. A Queer Visit to the Archives
Rebekah Irwin
11. From Mutiny to Community: Establishing Best Practices for Queer Zine Archives
Christopher Wilde
Part IV: Queer Print to Digital and Back
12. A Resurgence of Print: Crowdfunding Queerness in Fandom Zines
Cait Coker
13. Queer Digital Paratext and Networked Print Cultures
Ela Przybylo
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Vance Byrd and Javier Samper Vendrell
Part I: Queer Communities In and Around Print
1. Cryptic Margins: The Papercut Albums of Adele Schopenhauer
Catriona MacLeod
2. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Print Culture, and the Spread of Queer Ideas
Kyle Frackman
3. From the Front to the Back Page: Queer Reading in Theory and Practice
Hannah Frydman
4. Reading and Queer World-Making in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
Domenic DeSocio
Part II: Queer Subversion and Resistance
5. Texts, Sex, Paratexts: Re/Constructing Sexuality in Post-War British Science Fiction Zines
Phoenix Alexander
6. Queer Cut-Ups: The Collaged Library Books of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell
Daniel Fountain
7. The Queer Transits of Sex-Radical Porn
Elizabeth Groeneveld
8. Queer Prints, Publics, and Counterpublics in Bangladesh: The Coherent, In-Between, and Ephemeral
Saad Adnan Khan and Tanveer Hossain Anoy
Part III: Queer Media Praxis and Pedagogy
9. Collecting Queerly: Acquiring and Describing Queer Print Culture for a Rare Book Collection
Miriam Intrator
10. A Queer Visit to the Archives
Rebekah Irwin
11. From Mutiny to Community: Establishing Best Practices for Queer Zine Archives
Christopher Wilde
Part IV: Queer Print to Digital and Back
12. A Resurgence of Print: Crowdfunding Queerness in Fandom Zines
Cait Coker
13. Queer Digital Paratext and Networked Print Cultures
Ela Przybylo
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index