A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory / Edition 1

by Nikki Sullivan

Overview

This book begins by putting gay & lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814798416
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	233,275
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nikki Sullivan is a lecturer in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. She is the author of Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, Pleasure; and numerous articles on body modification and on sexuality.

Table of Contents

	Preface	v
1	The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness	1
2	Assimilation or Liberation, Sexuality or Gender?	22
3	Queer: A Question of Being or A Question of Doing?	37
4	Queer Race	57
5	Performance, Performativity, Parody, and Politics	81
6	Transsexual Empires and Transgender Warriors	99
7	Queering 'Straight' Sex	119
8	Community and its Discontents	136
9	Sadomasochism as Resistance?	151
10	Fetishism(s) and the Politics of Perversion	168
11	Queering Popular Culture	189
	Bibliography	207
	Index	225

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant issues within Queer Theory and incorporates provocative and highly contentious debates around sadomasochism, fetishism, and transgenderism."

-Linnell Secomb,University of Sydney

"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

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

From the Publisher

"Provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant issues within Queer Theory and incorporates provocative and highly contentious debates around sadomasochism, fetishism, and transgenderism."

Linnell Secomb