Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Brim Matt)(Paperback)

Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Brim Matt)(Paperback)

In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies (Somerville Siobhan B.)(Paperback)

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being

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

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

Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (Gopinath Gayatri)(Paperback)

In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries (Henderson Bruce)(Paperback)

Written for entry-level survey courses in queer or LGBTQ+ Studies for students from all majors, this engaging text covers a wide range of topics. Early chapters consider the meaning of 'queer' and examine identities such as trans, bi, and intersex. Intersections between sexuality/gender expression

Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies (Gray Mary L.)(Paperback)

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires

Queer Bloomsbury (Helt Brenda S.)(Paperback)

Presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural

The Madness Vase (Gibson Andrea)(Paperback)

Popular in queer communities, anti-war organizations, college campuses and women/gender studies programs, Andrea Gibson's second book of poems, The Madness Vase's topics range from hate crimes to playgrounds, from international conflict to hometowns, from falling in love to the desperation of

Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Ahmed Sara)(Paperback)

In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the 'orientation' aspect of 'sexual orientation' and the 'orient' in 'orientalism,' Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape

Archaeological Mission of Chieti University in Libya: Reports 2006-2008 (Menozzi Oliva)(Paperback)

The RES Series (Reports, Excavations and Studies of the Archaeological Unit of the University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara) is dedicated to the projects and the researches of the different teams of the university of Chieti-Pescara working on archaeological projects in Italy and abroad. This

Ninja: Unmasking the Myth (Turnbull Stephen)(Paperback)

Produced with the full cooperation of the Department of Ninja Studies at Mie University in Japan, where the author is Visiting Professor. This is the only academic institution in the world devoted to the study of

After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (Chambers-Letson Joshua)(Paperback)

A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking. After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. Through the exemplary work of Nina

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect,

French Queer Cinema (Rees-Roberts Nick)(Paperback)

French Queer Cinema examines the representation of queer identities and sexualities in contemporary French filmmaking. This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video in France. French Queer Cinema

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

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the 'hermeneutic of suspicion' widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory

The Queer Art of Failure (Halberstam Jack)(Paperback)

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground

New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut (Rich B. Ruby)(Paperback)

B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over

Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny (Velminski Wladimir)(Paperback)

Wladimir Velminski is a Researcher in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Zurich, a Research Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy of Bauhaus University, and an Associated Member at the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for

Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Schulman Sarah)(Paperback)

In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines,

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings (Takemitsu Toru)(Paperback)

In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on

Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Menon Madhavi)(Paperback)

Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways

Islam in Historical Perspective - International Student Edition (Knysh Alexander (University of Michigan Near Eastern Studies))(Paperback / softback)