Queering paradigms / Burkhard Scherer (ed).

Other author Scherer, Burkhard.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Peter Lang, ©2010.
Description350 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Queer theory.
Homosexuality--Philosophy.
Gender identity--Philosophy.

Contents General queer : or, Lee Edelman and the oppositional meaning of queer / Christien Garcia -- Performing lesbian sexual identity through discourse / Helen Sauntson and Liz Morrish -- Bad girls and dirty bodies : performative histories and transformative styles / Gemma Ruth Commane -- Transgender self-identification, disjunctions with clinical and theoretical accounts, and the illuminating potential of queer / Murray Couch -- Queer politics and anti-capitalism : from theory to praxis / Benjamin Shepard -- Surviving behind the mask : lesbians and gays in Botswana / Elizabeth Pulane Motswapong -- Recognition of overseas same-sex marriages : a matter of equality and sound statutory interpretation / Leonardo Raznovich -- Queering suicide : the problematic figure of the "suicidal homosexual" in psychiatric discourse / Ian Marsh -- Same-sex intimate partner violence : exploring the parameters / Matthew Ball and Sharon Hayes -- "Homophobia" in the university classroom : law and justice students' conceptualizations of queer identity / Sharon Hayes and Matthew Ball -- Saving schools from abomination and abnormal sex : a discourse analysis of online public commentary about "queering" school spaces / Angela Dwyer -- Queering cyberspace : fan fiction communities as spaces for expressing and exploring sexuality / Sharon Hayes and Matthew Ball -- Language, homo-masculinity and gay sexual cinema / William Leap -- Queering the system : Baltimore, dissent, abnormality and subversion in the wire / Alex Choat and Ken Fox -- "Everthing built on that" : queering western space in Proulx's Brokeback mountain / David Peterson -- 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 / Joanne Woodman -- Transgressing genders : queer reading German literature : Judith Hermann's Sonja and Annemarie Schwarzenbach's lyrische Novelle / Maria Katharina Wiedlack.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009042879
ISBN9783039119707 (alk. paper)
ISBN3039119702 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ76.25 .Q386 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold