Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies
Queer theory arose as a challenge to the stability of sexual categories. But is queer theory in the 1990s in danger of becoming just another category of theoretical inquiry and just another academic discipline? This book demonstrates the extent to which contemporary queer studies involves practices of interdisciplinary reading and analysis.
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies
Queer theory arose as a challenge to the stability of sexual categories. But is queer theory in the 1990s in danger of becoming just another category of theoretical inquiry and just another academic discipline? This book demonstrates the extent to which contemporary queer studies involves practices of interdisciplinary reading and analysis.
The feminist pornography debates are centered around the opposition between pro-censorship factions and the pro-sex radicals or sex positives. But what exactly is the relationship between these debates and postmodern theories of reading and performativity? What is the history behind today's sexual radicalism? This title deals with these questions.
The feminist pornography debates are centered around the opposition between pro-censorship factions and the pro-sex radicals or sex positives. This book explore a variety of historical contexts for understanding contemporary forms of sexual representation and the repression of such representations.
What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed have in common with the representation of indigenous women in Canadian police archives? How are literary representations of domestic violence related to the use of silence as a strategy of resistance in African American women's writing? This title deals with these questions.
What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed have in common with the representation of indigenous women in Canadian police archives? How are literary representations of domestic violence related to the use of silence as a strategy of resistance in African American women's writing? This title deals with these questions.
The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. This title turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia.
The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, and body politics. This book turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia and more.
