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Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age
Kay Siebler
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Description for Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age
Hardback. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 411.
This book explores, through specific analysis of media representations, personal interviews, and historical research, how the digital environment perpetuates harmful and limiting stereotypes of queerness. Siebler argues that heteronormativity has co-opted queer representations, largely in order to sell goods, surgeries, and lifestyles, reinforcing instead of disrupting the masculine and feminine heterosexual binaries through capitalist consumption. Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age focuses on different identity populations (gay, lesbian, transgender) and examines the theories (queer, feminist, and media theories) in conjunction with contemporary representations of each identity group. In the twenty-first century, social media, dating sites, social activist sites, and ... Read more
This book explores, through specific analysis of media representations, personal interviews, and historical research, how the digital environment perpetuates harmful and limiting stereotypes of queerness. Siebler argues that heteronormativity has co-opted queer representations, largely in order to sell goods, surgeries, and lifestyles, reinforcing instead of disrupting the masculine and feminine heterosexual binaries through capitalist consumption. Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age focuses on different identity populations (gay, lesbian, transgender) and examines the theories (queer, feminist, and media theories) in conjunction with contemporary representations of each identity group. In the twenty-first century, social media, dating sites, social activist sites, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137603227
SKU
V9781137603227
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About Kay Siebler
Kay Siebler is Professor of English and Gender and Power Studies coordinator at Missouri Western State University, USA. She has published on topics of queer identity, feminist rhetoric, teaching, student-centered learning, and service learning. She is the author of Composing Feminisms (2008), which documents the impact of feminism and feminist teachers within the field of English education.
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