Intersections Between Feminist and Queer Theory (Richardson D.)(Paperback)

Intersections Between Feminist and Queer Theory (Richardson D.)(Paperback)

Queer ideas have unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality in particular feminism and feminists have been significant critics. This book explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing to seek out interconnections and identify new directions in thinking about sexuality and

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (Boyarin Daniel)(Paperback)

The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith

Feminist War Games?: Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games (Saklofske Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Feminist War Games? explores the critical intersections and collisions between feminist values and perceptions of war, by asking whether feminist values can be asserted as interventional approaches to the design, play, and analysis of games that focus on armed conflict and economies of violence

Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain (Tinkcom Matthew)(Paperback)

Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain examines queer theory as it has emerged in the past three decades and discusses how Brokeback Mountain can be understood through the terms of this field of scholarship and activism. Organized into two parts, in the first half the author discusses key canonical

Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (Cipolla Cyd)(Paperback)

Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women's, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here 'queer'--or denaturalize and make strange--ideas that are

Feminist, Queer, Crip (Kafer Alison)(Paperback)

In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a

Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman (Ruti Mari)(Paperback)

In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of femininity to 21st-century analyses of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, postfeminism, and the

Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive (Serano Julia)(Paperback)

While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexualitysometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Among LGBTQ activists, there is a long history of lesbians and gay men dismissing bisexuals,

Deleuze and Queer Theory (Nigianni Chrysanthi)(Paperback)

Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity (Haefele-Thomas Ardel)(Paperback)

This book explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Tong Rosemarie)(Paperback)

A classic resource on feminist theory, Feminist Thought offers a clear, comprehensive, and incisive introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory, from liberal feminism, radical feminism, and Marxist and socialist feminism to care-focused feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, and

Fear of a Queer Planet, 6: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Warner Michael)(Paperback)

Reveals how queer activists and theorists have come to challenge basic assumptions of social and political

Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Ashtor Gila)(Paperback)

Can Queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life that is psychologically conservative and narrow. Even after several decades

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Edelman Lee)(Paperback)

In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of 'reproductive futurism.' Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence

Ecological Feminist Philosophies (Warren Karen J.)(Paperback)

Here feminist philosophers and ecofeminist scholars pursue the connections between feminism and environmentalism. Topics include the ecofeminist ethic; the role of patriarchal concepts in perpetuating the domination of women and nature; the grassroots origins and character of a thoughtful

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory 'unsettling' or 'provocative.' Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book

After Sex?: On Writing Since Queer Theory (Halley Janet)(Paperback)

Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field's history, accomplishments,

Living a Feminist Life (Ahmed Sara)(Paperback)

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective (Jeffreys Sheila)(Paperback)

Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics. The new

Queer Theory: An Introduction (Jagose Annamarie)(Paperback)

The essential history of queer theory The reclamation of the term queer over the last several decades marked a shift in the study of sexuality from a focus on supposedly essential categories such as gay and lesbian, to more fluid notions of sexual identity. On the cutting-edge of this significant

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Gumbs Alexis Pauline)(Paperback)

In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. In this poetic work inspired by Hortense Spillers, Gumbs

Feminist Legal Theory (Second Edition): A Primer (Levit Nancy)(Paperback)

Feminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the law, and it affects issues ranging from child custody to sexual harassment. Since its initial publication in 2006, Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer has received rave reviews. Now, in the completely updated second edition of this

Imagining Queer Methods (Ghaziani Amin)(Paperback)

Reimagines the field of queer studies by asking 'How do we do queer theory?' Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new

After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st Century (Bradway Tyler)(Paperback)

After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice. It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and argues for the prominent role that