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
