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Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critiqueby Roderick A. FergusonISBN 0816641293 (0-8166-4129-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desireby Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0231082738 (0-231-08273-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie GarberISBN 0415926610 (0-415-92661-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'Book summary:"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."
-Gore Vidal
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sexby Judith ButlerISBN 0415903661 (0-415-90366-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex'Book summary:In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender.
Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory. [via]More editions of Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex:
Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguityby Julia Epstein, Kristina StraubISBN 0415903890 (0-415-90389-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Camp : Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: a Readerby Fabio CletoISBN 0472067222 (0-472-06722-2)
Softcover, University of Michigan Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Camp : Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: a Reader'Book summary:The complete guide to camp; an anthology of the best writing on its history and current theory in cultural studies and lesbian and gay studies[via]More editions of Camp : Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: a Reader:
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Care of the Self the History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394741552 (0-394-74155-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Care of the Self the History of Sexuality'Book summary:The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. [via]
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Moviesby Vito RussoISBN 0060961325 (0-06-096132-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies'Book summary:When Vito Russo published the first edition of The Celluloid Closet in 1981, there was little question that it was a groundbreaking book. Today it is still one of the most informative and provocative books written about gay people and popular culture. By examining the images of homosexuality and gender variance in Hollywood films from the 1920s to the present, Russo traced a history not only of how gay men and lesbians had been erased or demonized in movies but in all of American culture as well. Chronicling the depictions of gay people such as the "sissy" roles of Edward Everett Horton and Franklin Pangborn in 1930s comedies or predatory lesbians in 1950s dramas (see Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn and Barbara Stanwyck in Walk on the Wild Side), Russo details how homophobic stereotypes have both reflected and perpetrated the oppression of gay people. In the revised edition, published a year before his death in 1990, Russo added information on the new wave of independent and gay-produced films--The Times of Harvey Milk, Desert Hearts, Buddies--that emerged during the 1980s. --Michael Bronski [via]
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Closet Devotionsby Richard RambussISBN 0822321971 (0-8223-2197-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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A Critical Introduction to Queer Theoryby Nikki SullivanISBN 0814798411 (0-8147-9841-1)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory'Book summary:A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts.
The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged in the West in the late twentieth century. Sullivan goes on to provide a detailed overview of the complex ways in which queer theory has been employed, covering a diversity of key topics including: race, sadomasochism, straight sex, fetishism, community, popular culture, transgender, and performativity. Each chapter focuses on a distinct issue or topic, provides a critical analysis of the specific ways in which it has been responded to by critics (including Freud, Foucault, Derrida, Judith Butler, Jean-Luc Nancy, Adrienne Rich and Laura Mulvey), introduces key terms, and uses contemporary cinematic texts as examples.
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Cultural Politics, Queer Readingby Alan SinfieldISBN 0812215427 (0-8122-1542-7)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultural Politics - Queer Reading'Book summary:Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.
An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the book's agenda for a new form of cultural critique and a truly political lesbian and gay studies. Sinfield renews his call for an 'Englit' that incorporates ongoing study of the cultures of ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
Challenging the assumptions that have shaped the study of English literature, Sinfield engages provocatively with topics such as the gendering of literary culture, the sexual politics of psychoanalysis during the Cold War and the history of cultural materialism. He discusses such key figures as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Arthur Miller, Holly Hughes, Audre Lorde and Jeanette Winterson.
This influential investigation of the principles and practice that may form dissident reading, forms compelling argument for intellectual allegiances beyond the academy.
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Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politicsby Jose Esteban Munoz, Munoz JoseISBN 0816630151 (0-8166-3015-1)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Epistemology of the Closetby Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0520078748 (0-520-07874-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epistemology of the Closet'Book summary:Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual life of the U.S. This has been, to no small degree, due to the popularity of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers--including Herman Melville, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde--Sedgwick delineates a historical moment in which sexual identity became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries.
Sedgwick's literary analysis, while provocative and often startling (you will never read Billy Budd or The Picture of Dorian Gray the same way again), is simply the basis for a larger project of examining and analyzing how the categories of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" continue to shape almost all aspects of contemporary thought. Epistemology of the Closet is a sometimes-dense work, but one filled with wit and empathy. Sedgwick writes with great intelligence and an eye for irony, but always makes clear that her theories and critical acumen are in the service of a politic that seeks to make the world a better and more humane place for everyone. An extraordinary book that reshapes how we think about literature, sexuality, and everyday life. --Michael Bronski [via]
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Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theoryby Social Text Collective, Michael WarnerISBN 0816623341 (0-8166-2334-1)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Female Masculinityby Judith HalberstamISBN 0822322439 (0-8223-2243-9)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Female Masculinity'Book summary:Readers who have followed the postmodern gender debate in the university presses (ranging from Thais Morgan's sedately twisted analyses of Victorian male lesbianism to Judith Butler's acclaimed Gender Trouble) will delight in the latest little earthquake: Judith Halberstam's deft separation of masculinity from the male body in Female Masculinity. If what we call "masculinity" is taken to be "a naturalized relation between maleness and power," Halberstam argues, "then it makes little sense to examine men for the contours of that masculinity's social construction." We can learn more from other embodiments of masculinity, like those found in drag-king performances, in the sexual stance of the stone butch, and in female-to-male transgenderism. Halberstam's subject is so new to critical discourse that her approach can be somewhat scattershot--there is simply too much to say--but her prose is lucid and deliberate, and her attitude refreshingly relaxed. Essential reading for gender studies and a lively contribution to cultural studies in general. --Regina Marler [via]
Feminism Meets Queer Theoryby Naomi Schor, Elizabeth WeedISBN 0253211182 (0-253-21118-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Foucault and Queer Theoryby Tamsin SpargoISBN 184046092X (1-84046-092-X)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940by George ChaunceyISBN 0465026214 (0-465-02621-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Usby Kate BornsteinISBN 0679757015 (0-679-75701-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us'Book summary:Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV (so to speak) talk shows. In her book, Bornstein covers the "mechanics" of her surgery, everything you've always wanted to know about gender (but were too confused to ask) addresses the place and politics of the transgendered and intterogates the questions of those who give the subject little thought, creating questions of her own. [via]
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Gender Troubleby Judith ButlerISBN 1428815627 (1-4288-1562-7)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble'Book summary:Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780415924993 [via]
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identityby Judith ButlerISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity'Book summary:In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The book was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender Trouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex. A primer in gender studies--and sexy reading for college cafés. --Regina Marler [via]
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Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxfordby Linda DowlingISBN 0801481708 (0-8014-8170-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford'Book summary:In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint it all." Wilde responded with a speech of legendary eloquence, defending love between men as a love "such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare." Electrified, the spectators in the courtroom burst into applause.
Although Wilde was ultimately imprisoned, the courtroom response to his speech signaled a revolutionary moment-the emergence into the public sphere of a kind of love that had always been proscribed in English culture. In this luminous work of intellectual history, Linda Dowling offers the first detailed account of Oxford Hellenism, the Victorian philosophical and literary movement that made possible Wilde's brief triumph and anticipated the modern possibility of homosexuality as a positive social identity.
A homosocial culture and a language of moral legitimacy for homosexuality emerged, Dowling argues, as unforeseen consequences of Oxford University reform. Through their search in Plato and Greek literature for a transcendental value that might substitute for a lost Christian theology, such liberal reformers as Benjamin Jowett unintentionally created a cultural context in which male love-the "spiritual procreancy" celebrated in Plato's Symposium-might be both experienced and justified in ideal terms. Dowling traces the institutional career of Hellenism from its roots in Oxford reform through its blossoming in an approach to Greek studies that came to operate as a code for homosexuality. Recreating the incidents, controversies, and scandals that heralded the growth of Hellenism, Dowling provides a new cultural and theoretical context within which to read writers as diverse as Wilde, Jowett, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, Lord Alfred Douglas, Robert Buchanan, and W. H. Mallock.
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The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394417755 (0-394-41775-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Sexuality: An Introduction'Book summary:The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. [via]
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Homosby Leo BersaniISBN 0674406206 (0-674-40620-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homos'Book summary:Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America.
Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life--and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays on Broadway, big book awards to authors writing on gay subjects, Hollywood movies with gay themes, gay and lesbian studies at dozens of universities, openly gay columnists and even editors at national mainstream publications, political leaders speaking in favor of gay rights: it seems that straight America has finally begun to listen to homosexual America.
Still, Bersani notes, not only has homophobia grown more virulent, but many gay men and lesbians themselves are reluctant to be identified as homosexuals. In Homos, he studies the historical, political, and philosophical grounds for the current distrust, within the gay community, of self-identifying moves, for the paradoxical desire to be invisibly visible. While acknowledging the dangers of any kind of group identification (if you can be singled out, you can be disciplined), Bersani argues for a bolder presentation of what it means to be gay. In their justifiable suspicion of labels, gay men and lesbians have nearly disappeared into their own sophisticated awareness of how they have been socially constructed. By downplaying their sexuality, gays risk self-immolation--they will melt into the stifling culture they had wanted to contest.
In his chapters on contemporary queer theory, on Foucault and psychoanalysis, on the politics of sadomasochism, and on the image of "the gay outlaw" in works by Gide, Proust, and Genet, Bersani raises the exciting possibility that same-sex desire by its very nature can disrupt oppressive social orders. His spectacular theory of "homo-ness" will be of interest to straights as well as gays, for it designates a mode of connecting to the world embodied in, but not reducible to, a sexual preference. The gay identity Bersani advocates is more of a force--as such, rather cool to the modest goal of social tolerance for diverse lifestyles--which can lead to a massive redefining of sociality itself, and of what we might expect from human communities.
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Homosexuality in Renaissance Englandby Alan BrayISBN 0231102895 (0-231-10289-5)
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Homosexuality in Renaissance Englandby Lillian Faderman, Alan Bray, Larry GrossISBN 0231102887 (0-231-10288-7)
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Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Culturesby Gayatri GopinathISBN 0822335131 (0-8223-3513-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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In A Queer Time And Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Livesby Judith HalberstamISBN 0814735851 (0-8147-3585-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In A Queer Time And Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives'Book summary:In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative formsespecially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.
In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, Boys Dont Cry, Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. She examines the transgender gaze, as rendered in small art-house films like By Hook or By Crook, as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as Austin Powers and The Full Monty, and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities.
Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and place.
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Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theoriesby Diana FussISBN 0415902371 (0-415-90237-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories'Book summary:In the space of a decade, lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out" to "acting up" to "outing". In the process, they have radically redefined the way society views sex, sexuality and gender. But what does it mean to say one is gay? A dyke? A queen? Queer? Are these descriptions of "sexual preference" or cries of political protest? The first collection to specifically feature the new theoretical work in lesbian and gay studies, "Inside / out" challenges the heterocentric foundations of much recent critical scholarship and current theories of sexual difference. Written by prominent contemporary lesbian and gay thinkers, the essays investigate the complex relations between desires and identifications, libidinal economies and social configurations, political representations and sexual symbolizations. The authors employ a variety of theoretical approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics and discourse theories) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music and photography. Looking at divas, dykes, vampires and queens, these analyses address issues of AIDS, pornography, pedagogy, authorship and activism. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics interested in gender, gay and cultural studies. [via]
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Judith Butler: Essential Guides for Literary Studiesby Sara SalihISBN 0415215196 (0-415-21519-6)
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The Lesbian and Gay Studies Readerby Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David M. HalperinISBN 0415905192 (0-415-90519-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader'Book summary:Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work currently being done in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader explores a multitude of sexual, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic experiences.
Ranging across disciplines including history, literature, critical theory, cultural studies, African American studies, ethnic studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology, classics, and philosophy, this anthology traces the inscription of sexual meanings in all forms of cultural expression. Representing the best and most significant English language work in the field, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader addresses topics such as butch-fem roles, the cultural construction of gender, lesbian separatism, feminist theory, AIDS, safe-sex education, colonialism, S/M, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, children's books, black nationalism, popular films, Susan Sontag, the closet, homophobia, Freud, Sappho, the media, the hijras of India, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the politics of representation. It also contains an extensive bibliographical essay which will provide readers with an invaluable guide to further reading.
Contributors: Henry Abelove, Tomas Almaguer, Ana Maria Alonso, Michele Barale, Judith Butler, Sue-Ellen Case, Danae Clark, Douglas Crimp, Teresa de Lauretis, John D'Emilio, Jonathan Dollimore, Lee Edelman, Marilyn Frye, Charlotte Furth, Marjorie Garber, Stuart Hall, David Halperin, Phillip Brian Harper, Gloria T. Hull, Maria Teresa Koreck, Audre Lorde, Biddy Martin, Deborah E. McDowell, Kobena Mercer, Richard Meyer, D. A. Miller, Serena Nanda, Esther Newton, Cindy Patton, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, Joan W. Scott, Daniel L. Selden, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Barbara Smith, Catharine R. Stimpson, Sasha Torres, Martha Vicinus, Simon Watney, Harriet Whitehead, John J. Winkler, Monique Wittig, and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano [via]More editions of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader:
Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Cultureby Alexander DotyISBN 0816622450 (0-8166-2245-0)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirelyby Kate BornsteinISBN 0415916739 (0-415-91673-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely'Book summary:Gender isn't just about "male" or "female" anymore - if you have any doubts, just turn on your television. RuPaul is as familiar as tomato ketchup with national radio and television shows, and transgendered folk are as common to talk-shows as screaming and yelling. But if the popularization of gender bending is revealing that "male" and "female" aren't enough, where are we supposed to go from here? Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender, but none provide a hands-on, accessible guide to having your own unique gender. With My Gender Workbook , Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender. Bornstein starts from the premise that there are not just two genders performed in today's world, but countless genders lumped under the two-gender framework. Using a unique, deceptively simple and always entertaining workbook format, Bornstein gently but firmly guides you to discover your own unique gender identity. Whether she's using the USFDA's food group triangle to explain gender, or quoting one-liners from real "gender transgressors", Bornstein's first and foremost concern is making information on gender bending truly accessible. With quizzes and exercises that determine how much of a man or woman you are, My Gender Workbook gives you the tools to reach whatever point you desire on the gender continuum. Bornstein also takes aim at the recent flurry of books that attempt to naturalize gender difference, and puts books like Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus squarely where they belong: on Uranus. If you don't think you are transgendered when you sit down to read this book, you will be by the time you finish it! [via]
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No Future: Queer Theory And The Death Driveby Lee EdelmanISBN 0822333694 (0-8223-3369-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Pomosexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexualityby Carol Queen, Lawrence SchimelISBN 1573440744 (1-57344-074-4)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pomosexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality'Book summary:We live in a complicated world, and according to PoMoSexuals, it is a lot more complicated than we thought. Now that society has become accustomed to the idea that gay men and lesbians exist, Lawrence Schimel and Carol Queen have brought together 15 essays dedicated to demolishing those categories. They are not, of course, arguing that homosexuals don't exist, but simply that these categories and words cannot do justice to the wondrous complexity of human sexuality. In PoMoSexuals you can read about heterosexual women who identify as gay men, the politics of placing a transgendered personal ad, and how trendy gay male ghetto culture is less about sexual liberation than brand-name accumulation. No matter what your sexual identity is, PoMoSexuals will startle and enlighten, provoke and entertain. [via]
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Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalismby Rosemary HennessyISBN 041592426X (0-415-92426-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjectionby Judith P. ButlerISBN 0804728127 (0-8047-2812-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desireby Wayne KoestenbaumISBN 0306810085 (0-306-81008-5)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire'Book summary:Why do so many gay men love opera? What makes an "opera queen"? What is the connection between gay sexuality and the full-throated longing that emerges from the diva's mouth? In The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, self-proclaimed opera queen Wayne Koestenbaum investigates the hidden--and unexpected--mysteries that opera and sexuality produce. At once a personal meditation and an iconoclastic, highly entertaining survey of divas, The Queen's Throat is ultimately a profoundly moving, and at times curiously disturbing, investigation of the intricate interplay between art and sexuality, between beauty and eroticism. Koestenbaum is not afraid to challenge, and he more or less grabs readers by the hand to drag them, with nonstop exuberance, through the ornate, highly stylized world of diva worship. Traipsing through descriptions of classic performances, musical autobiographies, personal recollections, historical notations, and the music itself, Koestenbaum creates for us the daring, frenzied, disordered, highly sexual--and ultimately ecstatic--world of the opera queen. --Michael Bronski [via]
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Queer Theoryby Annamarie JagoseISBN 0522846238 (0-522-84623-8)
Hardcover, Melbourne University Press
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Queer Theory: An Introductionby Annamarie JagoseISBN 0814742343 (0-8147-4234-3)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Cultureby Siobhan SomervilleISBN 0822324431 (0-8223-2443-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture'Book summary:Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was invented as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white color line, the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality.[via]
At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the publics attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and sexual deviance were used to reinforce each others terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Elliss late nineteenth-century work on sexual inversion, the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnsons Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomers fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality.
Queering the Color Line will have broad appeal across disciplines including African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.More editions of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture:
Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian Americaby David L. EngISBN 0822326361 (0-8223-2636-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Genderby Riki A. WilchinsISBN 1563410907 (1-56341-090-7)
Softcover, Firebrand Books
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Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Genderby Riki Anne WilchinsISBN 1563410915 (1-56341-091-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiographyby David M. HalperinISBN 0195111273 (0-19-511127-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexualityby Anne Fausto-SterlingISBN 0465077145 (0-465-07714-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality'Book summary:Anyone who has been following the new brain science in the popular press--and even those whose casual reading includes journals along the lines of Psychoneuroendocrinology--will be fascinated by the puckish observations of Brown University biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, whose provocative and erudite essays easily establish the cultural biases underlying current scientific thought on gender. She goes on to critique the science itself, exposing inconsistencies in the literature and weaknesses in the rhetorical and theoretical structures that support new research. "One of the major claims I make in this book," she explains, "is that labeling someone a man or a woman is a social decision. We may use scientific knowledge to help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender--not science--can define our sex. Furthermore, our beliefs about gender affect what kinds of knowledge scientists produce about sex in the first place." Whether discussing genital surgery on intersex infants or the amorous lives of lab rats, the author is unfailingly clear and convincing, and manages to impart humor to subjects as seemingly unpromising as neuroanatomy and the structure of proteins. --Regina Marler [via]
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Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualitiesby Jonathan GoldbergISBN 0804720509 (0-8047-2050-9)
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Straight With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexualityby Calvin Thomas, Joseph O. Aimone, Catherine A. F. MacGillivrayISBN 0252068130 (0-252-06813-0)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straight With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality'Book summary:This engaging collection poses the question, Can straight people think queer? "Straight with a Twist" offers a refreshing look at the relation between queer theory and critical examinations of the construction of heterosexuality. Seeking to proliferate the findings and insights of queer theory, contributors explore the issue of whether and how queer theory can speak for and include the straight. In some of the ways that men have learned from feminism to interrogate the construction of masculinity, straights are learning from queer theory to interrogate constructions of straightness, to question their place in those constructions, and to make critical interventions into the institutional reproduction of the heterosexual norm."Straight with a Twist" responds to the formulations of some of the leading figures in queer theory, considers demonstrations of the queer in television programs ("Seinfeld", for example) and contemporary films, and explores to what extent and in what ways literary texts from Shakespeare to Dorothy Allison are open to queer interpretation. Committed to antihomophobic cultural analysis, "Straight with a Twist" aims to extend the reach of queer theory and humanize the world by making it 'queerer than ever'. [via]
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Tendenciesby Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0822314215 (0-8223-1421-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tendencies'Book summary:Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing.[via]
The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites Tendencies is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun.
Times Square Red, Times Square Blueby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0814719201 (0-8147-1920-1)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Times Square Red, Times Square Blue'Book summary:An award-winning science fiction writer, esteemed professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and celebrated essayist and memoirist, Samuel Delany is one of America's keenest observers. He was also a longtime habitué of many of the sex theaters in New York City's Times Square, spending, by his own estimate, "thousands and thousands of hours" at the Capri, Variety Photoplays, the Eros, and the Venus. In the 1990s all of these theaters were shut down through new restrictive zoning laws, part of a combined effort by the Walt Disney Corporation and the administration of Mayor Rudy Giuliani to gentrify the area, replacing these seedily memorable institutions with antiseptic, innocuous architectural and cultural creations in the name of health safety. But as Delany reveals in his new book, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, the decision to clean up Times Square had little to do with public health, and everything to do with corporate greed.
In the two essays that comprise this eloquent, provocative book, Delany grieves for the loss of this strip of sexual release. Though he is careful not to romanticize or sentimentalize the peep shows and porn theaters, he does illuminate the way in which these venues crossed class, racial, and sexual orientation lines, providing a delightfully subversive utopia--and a microcosm of New York life. In the first essay, "Times Square Blue," Delany details his shared erotic and conversational encounters with working-class and homeless men in the theaters (which primarily showed straight porn films) and the genuine friendships that resulted; these immensely personal reminiscences also provide a social history of late-20th-century Times Square. Drawing on historical and theoretical resources in the second essay, "Three, Two, One, Contact: Times Square Red," Delany next builds a thoughtful and passionate argument against the gentrification of the area and the classist, characterless direction in which he sees New York heading. Read together, the essays of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue are both heartfelt homage to a beloved city and lament for a quirky vitality increasingly phased out by encroaching capitalism. --Kera Bolonik [via]
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Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativityby Adam Frank, Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0822330156 (0-8223-3015-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Lifeby Michael WarnerISBN 0674004418 (0-674-00441-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life'Book summary:The Trouble with Normal argues passionately against same-sex marriage, but here's the twist: not because it denigrates the institution of marriage, but because it perpetuates the cultural shame attached to sex between consenting but unmarried adults. When gay men and lesbians try to claim that they're just like "normal folk," Michael Warner writes, they do a profound disservice to other queer folk who choose not to live in monogamous or matrimonial bliss and who believe that the solution to being stigmatized for your sexuality is not to pretend it doesn't exist. Same-sex marriage advocates, he continues, often seem to be willfully blind to the cultural ramifications of their position, viewing marriage as "an intensified and deindividuated form of coming out." They don't seem to realize that if society validates their relationships, other types of relationships will by necessity be invalidated. (He also makes a strong case for the fight against sexual shame's being more than a queer issue, citing 1998's presidential impeachment crisis: "[Bill] Clinton, certainly, was not the first to discover how hard it is in this culture to assert any dignity when you stand exposed as a sexual being.") Extending his analysis, Warner shows how the championing of married gays and lesbians as "normal" is part of the same cultural climate that leads to "quality of life" crackdowns against queercentric businesses--as is already underway in New York City--and a deliberate sabotage of safer-sex education that puts millions of Americans at continued risk of exposure to HIV. Warner's precise, straightforward argument is enlivened by numerous sharp zingers, as when he accuses Andrew Sullivan of "breath[ing] new and bitchy life into Jesuitical pieties" about sexual morality. The Trouble with Normal is a bold, provocative book that forces readers to reconsider what sexual liberation really means. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Undoing Genderby Judith ButlerISBN 0415969239 (0-415-96923-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undoing Gender'Book summary:Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory. [via]
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The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394751221 (0-394-75122-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality'Book summary:In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior? [via]More editions of The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality:
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Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxietyby Marjorie B. GarberISBN 0415919517 (0-415-91951-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety'Book summary:Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it. Rich in anecdote and insight, Vested Interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our ongoing obsession with dressing up--and with the power of clothes. [via]
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Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie GarberISBN 0684824124 (0-684-82412-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'Book summary:Despite the flood of sexuality theory and queer cultural studies in 20th-century academia, bisexuality--and the many questions and problems surrounding it--has been little considered. In Vice Versa, Marjorie Garber, director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, takes on this enormous project with refreshing academic rigor and compelling enthusiasm. Covering cultural influences from antiquity through early psychoanalysis to such recent provocateurs as Geraldo Rivera and Susie Bright, Garber calls into question the basic underpinnings of even the most radical views of human sexuality. She suggests that bisexuality is "not just another sexual orientation but rather a sexuality that undoes sexual orientation as a category," and leads us through the ensuing ruckus with wit and grace.
Vice Versa offers personal accounts, clinical studies, and analysis from every possible camp to demonstrate Garber's thesis that bisexuality as an idea and an experience "disappears" or is erased from our discussions of sexuality at every turn through the normalizing (not to mention limiting) influence of the terms of the discussion itself. Her call to recognize bisexuality as not only valid but deeply transgressive--and therefore useful--in our culture is urgent and marked by a great affection for her subjects, from Freud to Madonna. "One of the key purposes of studying bisexuality is not to get people to 'admit' they 'are' bisexual," she says, "but rather to restore to them and the people they have loved the full, complex, and often contradictory stories of their lives." --Jessica Peterson [via]
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The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Cultureby Elizabeth FreemanISBN 0822329891 (0-8223-2989-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture'Book summary:In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddingsas performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformationare sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality. Looking at the history of Anglo-American weddings and their depictions in American literature and popular culture from the antebellum era to the present, she reveals the cluster of queer desires at the heart of the "wedding complex"longings not for marriage necessarily but for public forms of attachment, ceremony, pageantry, and celebration.[via]
Freeman draws on queer theory and social history to focus on a range of texts where weddings do not necessarily lead to legal marriage but instead reflect yearnings for intimate arrangements other than long-term, state-sanctioned, domestic couplehood. Beginning with a look at the debates over gay marriage, she proceeds to consider literary works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Vladimir Nabokov, and Edgar Allan Poe, along with such Hollywood films as Father of the Bride, The Graduate, and The Godfather. She also discusses less well-known texts such as Su Friedrichs experimental film First Comes Love and the off-Broadway, interactive dinner play Tony n Tinas Wedding.Offering bold new ways to imagine attachment and belonging, and the public performance and recognition of social intimacy, The Wedding Complex is a major contribution to American studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.
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Histoire De La Sexualiteby Michel FoucaultISBN 2070273822 (2-07-027382-2)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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