Queering Paradigms
Exploring the Future of Queer Theory and Studies
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang
Published:7th Dec '09
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This book presents a comprehensive exploration of Queer Theory, addressing its current status and future challenges through diverse scholarly contributions.
In Queering Paradigms, a collection of original, peer-reviewed research, scholars come together to explore the current landscape and future challenges of Queer Theory and Queer Studies. Drawing inspiration from a conference held at Canterbury Christ Church University in early 2009, this volume presents a diverse array of analyses and insights that reflect the evolving academic and public discourses surrounding sexual and gender normativities. The chapters are crafted with a multi- and trans-disciplinary approach, offering a rich tapestry of perspectives from various fields.
The book addresses the limitations of binary thinking by transcending the traditional homo- vs. heterosexuality framework. It interrogates both overt and subtle heteronormative and gender binarist assumptions, engaging with six key thematic areas: Queered Identities, Queer Politics, Queering Public Discourses, Queering the Classroom, Pop Queer, and Queer Readings. Each section invites readers to reflect on how these paradigms shape and are shaped by contemporary society.
Contributors to Queering Paradigms represent a broad spectrum of scholarship, including political and social science, philosophy, history, literary criticism, cultural studies, education, psychology, and legal studies. Through their work, they aim to evaluate, reformulate, and, when necessary, reclaim academic approaches within Queer Studies, ensuring that the discourse remains dynamic and relevant in addressing the complexities of gender and sexuality today.
Contents: Burkhard Scherer: Introduction: Queering Paradigms - Christien Garcia: General Queer; or, Lee Edelman and the Oppositional Meaning of Queer - Helen Sauntson/Liz Morrish: Performing Lesbian Sexual Identity through Discourse - Gemma Ruth Commane: Bad Girls and Dirty Bodies: Performative Histories and Transformative Styles - Murray Couch: Transgender Self-identification, Disjunctions with Clinical and Theoretical Accounts, and the Illuminating Potential of Queer - Benjamin Shepard: Queer Politics and Anti-Capitalism: From Theory to Praxis - Elizabeth Pulane Motswapong: Surviving Behind the Mask: Lesbians and Gays in Botswana - Leonardo J. Raznovich: Recognition of Overseas Same-Sex Marriages: A Matter of Equality and Sound Statutory Interpretation - Ian Marsh: Queering Suicide: The Problematic Figure of the "Suicidal Homosexual" in Psychiatric Discourse - Matthew Ball/Sharon Hayes: Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring the Parameters - Sharon Hayes/Matthew Ball: "Homophobia" in the University Classroom: Law and Justice Students' Conceptualizations of Queer Identity - Angela Dwyer: Saving Schools from Abomination and Abnormal Sex: A Discourse Analysis of Online Public Commentary about "Queering" School Spaces - Sharon Hayes/Matthew Ball: Queering Cyberspace: Fan Fiction Communities as Spaces for Expressing and Exploring Sexuality - William L. Leap: Language, Homo-masculinity and Gay Sexual Cinema - Alex Choat/Ken Fox: Queering the System: Baltimore, Dissent, Abnormality and Subversion in The Wire - David Peterson: "Everthing built on that": Queering Western Space in Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" - Joanne Woodman: Life is Not Always a Cabaret: Queer, Working-Class, Magical Realism in Marked for Life (1996), Does it Show? (1997) and Could it be Magic? (1999) by Paul Magrs - Maria Katharina Wiedlack: Transgressing Genders - A Queer Reading of German Literature: Judith Hermann's "Sonja" and Annemarie Schwarzenbach's Lyric Novella.
ISBN: 9783039119707
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 500g
350 pages
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