Description
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.
The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents:
- individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts
- essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders
- writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, José Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed.
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.
Author: Andrea Bebell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/31/2012
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.80w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780415564113
ISBN10: 0415564115
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | LGBTQ+
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Lesbian Studies
About the Author
Donald E. Hall is Professor and Herbert and Ann Siegel Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, USA.
Annamarie Jagose is Professor and Head of the School of Letters, Arts and Media at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Andrea Bebell is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at West Virginia University, USA.
Susan Potter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Aotearoa.
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