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After Sex?: On Writing since Queer Theory
Janet Halley
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Description for After Sex?: On Writing since Queer Theory
Paperback. Prominent participants in the development of queer theory explore the field in relation to their own intellectual itineraries, reflecting on its accomplishments, limitations, and critical potential. Editor(s): Halley, Janet E.; Parker, Andrew. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments, potential, and limitations. They consider the purpose of queer theory and the extent to which it is or is not defined by its engagement with sex and sexuality. For many of the contributors, a broad notion of sexuality is essential to queer thought. At the same time, some of them caution against creating an all-embracing ... Read more
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments, potential, and limitations. They consider the purpose of queer theory and the extent to which it is or is not defined by its engagement with sex and sexuality. For many of the contributors, a broad notion of sexuality is essential to queer thought. At the same time, some of them caution against creating an all-embracing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Series Q
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822349099
SKU
V9780822349099
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About Janet Halley
Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy, also published by Duke University Press. Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College and the editor of Jacques Rancière’s The ... Read more
Reviews for After Sex?: On Writing since Queer Theory
“At a moment when many had begun to worry that queer theory was becoming little more than a widespread litany of dogmas and slogans, this volume arrives as a wonderful surprise: not only because it reminds us what a contribution the varied intellectual currents grouped together under that rubric have been making—and for nearly twenty years now—to the renewal of ... Read more