Queer theory now : from foundations to futures / Hannah McCann and Whitney Monaghan.

"This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally. The authors engage with a wide range of developments in queer theory thinking including...

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Main Authors: McCann, Hannah (Author), Monaghan, Whitney (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Defining Queer Theory
  • 2. From Pathology to Pride
  • 3. Sexuality and Feminism
  • 4. AIDS and Acting Up
  • 5. Outing the Closet
  • 6. Theory Meets Identity
  • 7. Negotiating Intersections
  • 8.Temporality and Queer Utopias.
  • 1. Defining Queer Theory ; Defining the indefinable ; Queer theory beyond identity ; Genealogies of queer theory ; Postmodernism, poststructuralism and queer theory ; Queer theory against normativity ; Queer theory without anti-normativity ; The death of queer theory? ; Roadmap for queer Theory Now
  • 2. From Pathology to Pride ; Queer theory and the history of sexuality ; History according to Foucault? ; Racism in Western sexology ; Fighting for homosexual rights ; Conclusion: a history of knowledge and power
  • 3. Sexuality and Feminism ; Queer theory's feminist foundations ; Feminism(s) ; Queer theory's gender problem ; Feminisms in tension ; Intersectional feminism ; Anti-pornography feminism ; The sexuality/feminism split ; The impact of the "sex wars" on queer theory ; Queering the "third wave" ; Conclusion: Queer feminism today
  • 4. AIDS and Acting Up ; AIDS and queer thinking ; The unfolding crisis ; AIDS activism and the emergence of "Queer" ; Conclusion: Queer thinking after AIDS
  • 5. Outing the Closet ; Queer theory articulates itself ; What's so queer about Judith Butler? ; What's so queer about Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick? ; Conclusion: Queering critical theory
  • 6. Theory Meets Identity ; Queer theory versus identity ; The new homonormativity ; Wounded attachments ; Connectivity and transgender identity ; Conclusion: Where to now for postidentity politics?
  • 7. Negotiating Intersections ; The problem of erasing difference ; Intersectionality or deconstruction? ; An intersectional approach to queer theory ; New avenues for queer theory ; Conclusion: Queer intersections
  • 8. Temporality and queer Utopias ; Queer theory and time: a temporal turn ; Heteronormative temporality ; The anti-social thesis ; Critical present-ness ; Cruel optimism and impasse ; Queer childhoods ; Looking forward, feeling backward ; Affirmation, optimism and future orientations ; Conclusion: Queer time.