Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory

by D. Richardson (Editor), J. McLaughlin (Editor), M. Casey (Editor)

Overview

The emergence of queer ideas has unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality, in particular, feminism. In response, feminists have been significant critics of queer ideas. This book, through the contribution of important US and UK writers, explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing in order to seek out interconnections between the two and identify new directions in thinking about sexuality and gender that may emerge out of and at the interface.

How are questions of cultures and identities being reconfigured? What political communities and strategies are becoming possible and impossible in this context? What kinds of theoretical connections and alliances are being made? In addressing these and other questions the chapter authors explore themes such as: queer or feminist?; the distance between the global and local; bringing material and cultural analysis together; and the general legacy of feminism and queer theory. Now in paperback, the book also includes a new Preface by the editors that highlights the recent changes across feminist and queer studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230296350
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/22/2012
Series:	Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences Series
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

DIANE RICHARDSON is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Newcastle, UK. She has written extensively about feminism and sexuality. She is the author of Theorising Heterosexuality, Rethinking Sexuality and, co-edited with Steven Seidman, The Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies. She is currently co-editing, with Vicki Robinson, a third edition of Introducing Gender and Women's Studies.

JANICE McLAUGHLIN is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK. Her research is focused on two interrelated areas. One is the examination of contemporary social theory, which led to her publication, Feminist Social and Political Theory. The other research focus is the examination of the construction of knowledge, meanings and values within healthcare, relating this in particular to professional boundaries, technologies and disability. This work is being taken forward via a number of funded research projects.

MARK E. CASEY is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, UK, where he teaches Comparing Cultures and Regulating Sexuality. His research interests lie within lesbian and gay urban lives, 'the city', gay male bar and club cultures and his current research project examining gay male travel, the body and sex in Australia. His publications include De-Dyking Queer Space: Female Heterosexual Access and Visibility within Lesbian and Gay Space (Sexualities). He also writes for lifestyle magazines such as Attitude and The Crack.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Preface to the paperback edition Introduction: At the Intersections of Feminist and Queer Debates; J.McLaughlin, M.E.Casey& D.Richardson
Bordering Theory; D.Richardson
Heterosexuality, Sexuality and Gender: Re-thinking the Intersections; S.Jackson
The Return of the Material: Cycles of Theoretical Fashion in Lesbian, Gay and Queer Studies; J.McLaughlin
On the Evolution of Queer Studies: Lesbian Feminism, Queer Theory and Globalization; L.Garber
Boys will be bois? Or Transgender Feminism and the Forgetful Fish; J.Halberstam
The Value of a Second Skin; R.Hennessy
Refiguring the Family: Toward a Post-Queer Politics of Gay and Lesbian Marriage; C.Meeks& A.Stein
Practically between Post-Menopause and Post-Modern; A.R.Wilson
References Index

Editorial Reviews

'Challenging narrowly discursive and deconstructive approaches, Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory brings together a stellar list of international scholars to make a powerful case for a theoretically robust, 'materialist' and intersectional approach to the critical analysis of gender and sexuality. This text is brimming with novel and exciting ideas about what a critical gender and sexualities studies should look like as we confront the tough realities of the present.' - Steven Seidman, Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, USA, and author of Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today

'Enjoyable, interesting and timely.' - Sexualities

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