Playing with Fire opens the intersection of lesbian and gay studies and political theory to a wide audience, covering a range of issues, including the theory of queer identities; the contrasts among ethnic, racial, and sexual identities, etc.
Playing with fire: queer politics, queer theories
The last five years have witnessed the birth of a vibrant new group of young scholars who are writing about queer law, politics, and policy--topics which are no longer treated as of interest only to lesbians and gay men, but which now garner the attention of political theorists …
"Rachel Loewen Walker's original study of Deleuze's theory of temporality critically expands our understanding of non-linear time through engagement with queer theory and new feminist materialisms. Walker draws on the notion of non-linear time in Deleuze's work to advance a conc…
"Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp, this critical anthology simultaneously queers camp as an issue and offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory and practice of camp."--
Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp, this critical anthology simultaneously queers camp as an issue and offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory and practice of camp.
Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp, this critical anthology simultaneously queers camp as an issue and offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory and practice of camp.
"No Future' offers a new & radically uncompromising ethics of queer theory. Citing the figure of the child as the lynchpin of heteronormative culture, Edelman urges queers to abandon accomodation & to embrace their status as figures beyond the consensus of those always 'fighting…
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