Queering gay and lesbian studies
By: Thomas Piontek.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Urbana and Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780252030314; 9780252072802
Subjects: Gay and lesbian studies.
Description: Sexuality is neither stable, tidy, nor developmental. This new study provides a critical analysis of the development of gay and lesbian studies alongside the development of queer theory, the disputes between them, and criticism of their activities from both in and outside of the gay academic community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forget stonewall : making (gay) history perfectly queer; title: Queering the rhetoric of the gay male sex wars; title: How gay theory and the gay movement betrayed the sissyboy; title: Queer alternatives to men and women; title: Redrawing the map of the 'gender-and-sex landscape' : identity and the performativity of queer sex.