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Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

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ISBN-10: 0814798411

ISBN-13: 9780814798416

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nikki Sullivan

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"This book is a succinct, pedagogically designed introduction. As classroom text, Sullivan's work is heady with vibrant debate and slim heuristics; her intellectual clarity is stunning." Choice A Critical Introduction to Queer Theoryexplores 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…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Nikki Sullivan is an honorary researcher in the Department of Media, Music, Communication, and Cultural Studies, and also teaches in the School of Communication, International Studies, and Languages at the University of South Australia. She is the author of Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics and Pleasure and A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory.

Preface
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
Bibliography
Index