Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories
The last five years have witnessed the birth of a vibrant new group of young scholars who are writing about queer law, politics, and policy--topics which are no longer treated as of interest only to lesbians and gay men, but which now garner the attention of political theorists of all stripes. Playing With Fire--the first scholarly collection on queer politics by US political theorists--opens the intersection of lesbian and gay studies and political theory to a wide audience. It covers a wide...
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The last five years have witnessed the birth of a vibrant new group of young scholars who are writing about queer law, politics, and policy--topics which are no longer treated as of interest only to lesbians and gay men, but which now garner the attention of political theorists of all stripes. Playing With Fire--the first scholarly collection on queer politics by US political theorists--opens the intersection of lesbian and gay studies and political theory to a wide audience. It covers a wide range of issues, including: the theory of queer identities; the contrasts among ethnic, racial, and sexual identities; the debate between liberals and communitarians; the right to privacy; and the meaning of equal citizenship.Contributors: Gordon Babst, Lisa Bower, Cynthia Burack, Judith Butler, Paisley Currah, Morris Kaplan, Gary Lehring, Shane Phelan, Anne Marie Smith, Angelia Wilson, and Stacey Young.
Introduction11Critically Queer112True or False: The Self in Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory313Dichotomies and Displacement: Bisexuality in Queer Theory and Politics514Lesbians and Mestizas: Appropriation and Equivalence755Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Queer Translating996The Centering of Right-Wing Extremism Through the Construction of an "Inclusionary" Homophobia and Racism1137Community, Rights Talk, and the Communitarian Dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick1398Essentialism and the Political Articulation of Identity1739Intimacy and Equality: The Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage20110Politics, Practices, Publics: Identity and Queer Rights23111Queer Problems/Straight Solutions: The Limits of a Politics of "Official Recognition"267
