Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to 'sameness' only thwart an…
"Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to 'sameness' only thwart a…
This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory--steeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'--have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Sa…