Foucault and Queer Theory [electronic resource].
Spargo, Tamsin.
Cambridge : Icon Books,
1999.
In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTERS series and providing a brief introduction to Foucault's compelling ideas and the development of Queer culture, this is the meeting place between the Frenchman's theories of sexuality, power and discourse and the current key exponents of Queer thinking.
Description based upon print version of record.
Sex Matters; Who is Foucault?; What is Queer Theory?; A Queer Genealogy; Sex,Truth and Discourse; Scientia Sexualis; The Construction of Homosexuality; Power and Resistance; Reactions to Foucault; Foucault + ? = Queer Theory?; Identity Crisis; 'We're here, we're queer, get used to it.'; Queer(ing) Theory; Queer Foucault; Heterosexuality versus Homosexuality; Getting Personal; What Butler Saw; Queer Knowledges/Queer Performances; Queer Today and Gone Tomorrow?; Notes; Further Reading; Key Ideas; Discourse; Genealogy; Heteronormativity; Identity Politics; Lacanian Model of Subjectivity
NormativityPerformativity; Scientia Sexualis; Taxonomy; Transsexual/Transgender
In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTERS series and providing a brief introduction to Foucault's compelling ideas and the development of Queer culture, this is the meeting place between the Frenchman's theories of sexuality, power and discourse and the current key exponents of Queer thinking.
Foucault, Michel.
Postmodernism.