Feminist disability studies
Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, situated at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies, addresses questions about the nature of embodiment, the meani…
Gayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early '70s with the essay "The Traffic in Women," which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, "Thinking Sex." This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging …
Gayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 1970s with the essay 'The Traffic in Women, ' which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, 'Thinking Sex.' This volume collects her essays covering topics rangin…
"The sixteen essays assembled in this volume, four of them co-authored, chart the successive phases of a professional life lived in the interstices of Bible and "theory." Engaging such texts as the Song of Songs, 4 Maccabees, Mark, Luke-Acts, John, and Romans, and such themes as…
Queer ecologies: sex, nature, politics, desire
Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space & gay ghettos, AIDS literatures & queer nationalities, this collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality & environmental studies.
This Companion provides an interdisciplinary and international overview to the increasingly important field of queer studies. The team of respected and experienced scholars and activists foregrounds and promotes the many intersections of queer studies in an accessible, clear and…
"This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. A combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, put the term…
Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capita…
Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows---including Six Feet Under, Buffy, Desperate Housewives, The L Word, and Big Love---as serious, important texts and by reading them in detail through the lens of queer theory.
An examination of filmic and Internet representations of transgender from a post-modern perspective, as a phenomenon that challenges conventional demarcations of sexuality and gender on the one hand, while provoking an ambivalent mixture of fear and fascination on the other.
An exploration of the Goth subculture that addresses gender and sexual politics and discusses media, fashion, identity, and other related topics.
This is an introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory. Guiding the reader through complex theory, the author develops the original position of queer feminism.
This is an introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory. Guiding the reader through complex theory, the author develops the original position of queer feminism.