Introduction: Theorizing Queer Rurality and Calls for LGBTQ Visibility -- Metronormativity as Legacy: The Cases of Matthew Shepard and Jene Newsome -- (Be)coming Out, Be(com)ing Visible -- Post-Race, Post-Space: Calls for Disability and LGBTQ Visibility -- Queer Labors: Visibili…
"A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest"--
"A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest"--
"Utilizing an autoethnographic approach, this book probes the nature of female intimacy in contemporary society by tracing the life of a lesbian couple over a forty year period"--
"Utilizing an autoethnographic approach, this book probes the nature of female intimacy in contemporary society by tracing the life of a lesbian couple over a forty year period"--
Annotation
This book traces the roots of queer theory to the growing awareness that few of us precisely fit standard categories for sexual and gender identity.
"Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the 'gender wars' or 'TERF wars' - the fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Finn Mackay investigates t…
Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates
In the past decade the central principles of western feminist theory have been dramatically challenged. Many feminists have endorsed post-structuralism's rejection of essentialist theoretical categories, and have added a powerful gender dimension to contemporary critiques of mod…