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Loading... Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthologyby Brett Beemyn (Editor), Mickey Eliason (Editor)
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0814712584, Paperback)Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people are becoming more and more visible in all aspects of American culture, from party politics to MTV videos. Despite the recent queer publishing explosion, few texts cover a broad range of topics around sexual and gender identities. Most existing works are high-level theory books, texts focused upon specific disciplines or topics, or practical guides aimed primarily at a heterosexual audience or people just beginning to come out. There has been to date no general, accessible, and inclusive work suitable for use as an introduction to Queer Studies. In this collection, contributors assess the conflict between postmodernism and identity, the concept which typically serves as a linchpin for social and political organizing. Others address queer theory, looking specifically at how we define it, how it informs political activism, and how we can theorize such aspects of sexual performance/behaviors as s/m or butch-femme relationships. The volume contains contributions from both established and newly emerging Queer Studies scholars, including Amber Ault, M. V. Lee Badgett, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Gregory Conerly, Patricia L. Duncan, Ruth Goldman, Lynda Goldstein, Sherrie A. Inness, Christopher James, Amanda Udis-Kessler, JeeYeun Lee, Michele E. Lloyd, Tracy D. Morgan, Ki Namaste, Vernon Rosario II, Paula Rust, and Siobhan Somerville. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:14:52 -0500) No library descriptions found. |
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Vernon A. Rosario's Trans (Homo) Sexuality about the invisibility to clinicians of trans people who want to transition to a sex that would make them homosexual.
Paula C. Rust's Sexual Identities and Bisexual Identities, about how finding a bi-sexual identity is more of a process than a particular one-time discovery. From my own experience, I would say that her thesis could be broadened out to include lots of personal definition.
Ki Namaste's Tragic Misreadings, an excellent critique of Judith Butler and other post-modern queer theorists for their erasure of actual people's experience in their theories.
I think that queers of color will find even more empowering essays in this book, and beginning points for their own research. (