A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
Second Edition
Edinburgh University Press
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. January 2027
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7486-4362-2 (ISBN)
Description
This second edition of A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory includes new chapters on sexuality and dis/ability; animal sex and species boundaries; queer necropolitics and queer kinship that focus on key contemporary debates, writers, practices and texts. Existing chapters on topics such as race and trans have been substantially updated to include shifts in both theory and practice that have occurred since the publication of the first edition. Key concepts such as identity politics, heteronormativity, homonationalism, materiality and transsomatechnics are discussed at length. This revised edition maintains the original interdisciplinary focus of the first edition and will be relevant to those working in disciplines as diverse as Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Philosophy, Early Childhood Education and Sociobiology.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-4362-2 (9780748643622)
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Persons
Nikki Sullivan currently holds a leadership role in LGBTIQA+ and HIV+ health in Adelaide, Australia. She is the co-author of Queering the Museum (with Craig Middleton, 2020), Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts (with Lisa Downing and Iain Morland, 2014), author of Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Sexuality, Ethics and Pleasure (2001), co-editor of Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies (with Samantha Murray, 2009) and author of a large number of journal articles and book chapters. Nikki was the co-founding editor (with Samantha Murray) of the Somatechnics journal. Katrina Jaworski is an Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Adelaide University, Australia. Her research focuses on the agency of suicide, with attention to gender, sexuality, relational ethics and poetry. Sometimes she also researches and writes on Rwandan genocide, the philosophy of dying bodies, trauma and the cultural politics of thinking. Alongside numerous articles and book chapters, to date she has sole-authored The Gender of Suicide (2016) and co-edited Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Dissertations (2015), Rethinking Madness: Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections (2020) and Reframing Suicide: The Development of Critical Suicide Studies (2024). She has forthcoming book chapters in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide (2026) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death (2026). Abraham Weil is an Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the
University of Kansas, USA. Trained in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona (PhD) and Rutgers University (MA), Weil's research cultivates relations between politics, life and environment, asking how bodies are entangled in ecological and discursive worlds that redistribute vulnerability, endurance and radically uneven life chances across scales. His work engages questions of racialization, speciation and sexual difference through Black feminist theory, trans studies, continental philosophy, critical animal studies, ecology and aesthetics. He is the co-editor of Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader (2025).
Kelly Sharron is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas, USA. Sharron completed her PhD in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona in 2019. Her research broadly considers the multiple state tactics at play in police brutality including the extension of a feminist ethic of care in producing violent effects and Marxist feminisms in reproductive labour and care work. Sharron's work has been published in Somatechnics, TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly, and Abolition Journal. She is the co-editor of Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader (2025).
University of Kansas, USA. Trained in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona (PhD) and Rutgers University (MA), Weil's research cultivates relations between politics, life and environment, asking how bodies are entangled in ecological and discursive worlds that redistribute vulnerability, endurance and radically uneven life chances across scales. His work engages questions of racialization, speciation and sexual difference through Black feminist theory, trans studies, continental philosophy, critical animal studies, ecology and aesthetics. He is the co-editor of Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader (2025).
Kelly Sharron is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas, USA. Sharron completed her PhD in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona in 2019. Her research broadly considers the multiple state tactics at play in police brutality including the extension of a feminist ethic of care in producing violent effects and Marxist feminisms in reproductive labour and care work. Sharron's work has been published in Somatechnics, TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly, and Abolition Journal. She is the co-editor of Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader (2025).
Author
leadership role in LGBTIQA+ and HIV+ health
Associate Professor in Cultural StudiesAdelaide University
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality StudiesUniversity of Kansas
Assistant Professor in Women, Gender and Sexuality StudiesUniversity of Kansas
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Reintroduction to Queer Theory
1. The Social Construction of 'Homosexuality': From Problem to Pride
2. Queer: A Question of Being or a Question of Doing?
3. Performance, Performativity, Parody and Politics
4. Queering Race
5. Queering/Cripping Dis/ability
6. Queer Necropolitics
7. 'We Pull Up': Queer Kinship as a Method for Being Yourself
8. Animal Sex and Species Boundaries
9. Queering Straight Sex
10. The Evil Twin: Trans Life and Study
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: A Reintroduction to Queer Theory
1. The Social Construction of 'Homosexuality': From Problem to Pride
2. Queer: A Question of Being or a Question of Doing?
3. Performance, Performativity, Parody and Politics
4. Queering Race
5. Queering/Cripping Dis/ability
6. Queer Necropolitics
7. 'We Pull Up': Queer Kinship as a Method for Being Yourself
8. Animal Sex and Species Boundaries
9. Queering Straight Sex
10. The Evil Twin: Trans Life and Study
Bibliography
Index