Feminism Meets Queer Theory
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"... innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possibility that liberation can be mutual rather than mutually exclusive." — Lambda Book ReportWhen feminism meets queer theory, no introductions seem necessary. The two share common political interests — a concern for women's and gay and lesbian rights — and many of the same academic and intellectual roots. And yet, they can also seem like strangers, needing mediation, translation, clarification. This volume focuses on the encounters of feminist and queer theories, on the ways in which basic terms such as "male" and "female," "man" and "woman," "black," "white," "sex," "gender," and "sexuality" change meaning as they move from one body of theory to another. Along with essays by Judith Butler, Evelynn Hammonds, Biddy Martin, Kim Michasiw, Carole-Anne Tyler, and Elizabeth Weed, there are interviews: Judith Butler engages Rosi Braidotti and Gayle Rubin in separate revealing discussions. And there are critical exchanges: Rosi Braidotti and Trevor Hope exchange comments on his reading of her work; and Teresa de Lauretis responds to Elizabeth Grosz's review of her recent book.
IntroductionAgainst Proper Objects1Feminism by Any Other Name. Interview31Sexual Traffic. Interview68Extraordinary Homosexuals and the Fear of Being Ordinary109Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality136Camp, Masculinity, Masquerade157Melancholic Modernity: The Hom(m)osexual Symptom and the Homosocial Corpse187Revisiting Male Thanatica. Response214The "Returns" of Cartography: Mapping Identity-In(-)Difference. Response223Passing: Narcissism, Identity, and Difference227The More Things Change266The Labors of Love. Analyzing Perverse Desire: An Interrogation of Teresa de Lauretis's The Practice of Love292Habit Changes. Response315Notes on Contributors335Index337
