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Book SynopsisThis new take on Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts.
Trade ReviewThe book provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant issues within Queer Theory and incorporates provocative and highly contentious debates around sadomasochism, fetishism, and transgenderism. -- Linnell Secomb, Department of Gender Studies, University of Sydney A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory is a book I will be keeping on my shelves, and I would recommend it to students new to queer theory and queer textual analysis as a reference point from whence to begin their own explorations. -- Jenny Alexander, Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society The book provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant issues within Queer Theory and incorporates provocative and highly contentious debates around sadomasochism, fetishism, and transgenderism. A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory is a book I will be keeping on my shelves, and I would recommend it to students new to queer theory and queer textual analysis as a reference point from whence to begin their own explorations.
Table of ContentsContents; Introduction; 1 The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness; 2 Assimilation or Liberation, Sexuality or Gender?; 3 Queer: A Question of Being, or A Question of Doing?; 4 Queer Race; 5 Performance, Performativity, Parody and Politics; 6 Transsexual Empires and Transgender Warriors; 7 Queering 'Straight' Sex; 8 Community and Its Discontents; 9 Sadomasochism as Resistance?; 10 Fetishism(s) and Political Perversion; 11 Queering Popular Culture; Bibliography.
