Queer Ideas: The Kessler Lectures in Lesbian & Gay Studies
This volume brings together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies. Participants in the outstanding Kessler series, hosted by CLAGS, the premiere U.S. think-tank in the field, they present ten -diverse approaches to the experiences, history, and culture of lesbian and gay people, and in the process they think new and queer ideas into being. Beginning with Joan Nestle, who explores the outsider status of lesbians through the complex life a black lesbian domestic worker, and...
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A dynamic collection of essays from the leading voices in lesbian and gay studies. Library Journal This is an important collection of ten revised speeches from the prestigious Kessler lecture series at CUNY's Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, which attracts important thinkers in LGTBQ (Lesbian/Gay/Transgender/Bisexual/Queer) studies. Between 1992 and 2001, the series included Joan Nestle, Edmund White, Barbara Smith, Monique Wittig, Esther Newton, Samuel R. Delany, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, John D'Emilio, Cherrie Moraga, and Judith Butler, whose work is represented here. Taken as a whole, these essays are emblematic of the theoretical diversity that marks LGTBQ studies. For example, Nestle preserves the life stories of socially marginal lesbians, while Butler examines gender as a fluid variable that shifts according to historical context. The witty introduction, written by the past and current center directors, convincingly argues that "queer ideas can change the world," yet the essays themselves are uneven. Historicizing categories of identity is intellectually powerful, but some speakers declare, "I'm here, I'm queer" without explaining why being queer matters. A helpful addition to such standard LGTBQ texts as Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (ed., Robert Corber) or The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (ed., Henry Abelove). Recommend for public and academic libraries.-Katherine C. Adams, Bowdoin Coll. Lib., Brunswick, ME Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Foreword1Introduction5"I Lift My Face to the Hill": The Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman21The Personal Is Political: Queer Fiction and Criticism41African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration51Reading and Comments: Virgile, non/Across the Acheron63My Butch Career: A Memoir81...3, 2, 1, Contact99A Dialogue on Love137A Biographer and His Subject: Wrestling with Bayard Rustin169A Xicanadyke Codex of Changing Consciousness185Global Violence, Sexual Politics197Permissions Acknowledgments215
\ Library JournalThis is an important collection of ten revised speeches from the prestigious Kessler lecture series at CUNY's Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, which attracts important thinkers in LGTBQ (Lesbian/Gay/Transgender/Bisexual/Queer) studies. Between 1992 and 2001, the series included Joan Nestle, Edmund White, Barbara Smith, Monique Wittig, Esther Newton, Samuel R. Delany, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, John D'Emilio, Cherrie Moraga, and Judith Butler, whose work is represented here. Taken as a whole, these essays are emblematic of the theoretical diversity that marks LGTBQ studies. For example, Nestle preserves the life stories of socially marginal lesbians, while Butler examines gender as a fluid variable that shifts according to historical context. The witty introduction, written by the past and current center directors, convincingly argues that "queer ideas can change the world," yet the essays themselves are uneven. Historicizing categories of identity is intellectually powerful, but some speakers declare, "I'm here, I'm queer" without explaining why being queer matters. A helpful addition to such standard LGTBQ texts as Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (ed., Robert Corber) or The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (ed., Henry Abelove). Recommend for public and academic libraries.-Katherine C. Adams, Bowdoin Coll. Lib., Brunswick, ME Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
