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A critical introduction to queer theory /

"Explores how 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 tw...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sullivan, Nikki, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2003]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The social construction of same-sex desire: sin, crime, sickness
  • Assimilation or liberation, sexuality or gender?
  • Queer: a question of being or a question of doing?
  • Queer race
  • Performance, performativity, parody and politics
  • Transsexual empires and transgender warriors
  • Queering "straight" sex
  • Community and its discontents
  • Sadomasochism as resistance?
  • Fetishism(s) and the politics of perversion
  • Queering popular culture.