Queer Theory: An Introduction
The political and academic appropriation of the term queer over the last several years has marked a shift in the study of sexuality from a focus on supposedly essential categories as gay and lesbian to more fluid or queer notions of sexual identity. Yet queer is a category still in the process of formation. In Queer Theory, Annamarie Jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of same-sex love over the last century.\ Blending...
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The political and academic appropriation of the term queer over the last several years has marked a shift in the study of sexuality from a focus on supposedly essential categories as gay and lesbian to more fluid or queer notions of sexual identity. Yet queer is a category still in the process of formation. In Queer Theory, Annamarie Jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of same-sex love over the last century. Blending insights from prominent theorists such as Judith Butler and David Halperin, Jagose argues that queer theory's challenge is to create new ways of thinking, not only about fixed sexual identities such as heterosexual and homosexual, but also about other supposedly essential notions such as sexuality and gender and even man and woman.
1Introduction12Theorising Same-Sex Desire7What is homosexuality exactly?7The invention of homosexuality10Homosexuality and heterosexuality163The Homophile Movement224Gay Liberation305Lesbian Feminism446Limits of Identity587Queer72Homosexual, lesbian or gay, queer72The post-structuralist context of queer75Performativity and identity83HIV/AIDS discourse93Queer identity968Contestations of Queer1019Afterword127Notes133Bibliography137Index150
\ From the Publisher"Annamarie Jagose knows that queer theory did not spring full-blown from the head of any contemporary theorist. It is the outcome of many different influences and sources, including the homophile movement, gay liberation, and lesbian feminism. In pointing to the history of queer theory—a history that all too often is ignored or elided—Jagose performs a valuable service."\ -Henry Abelove,co-editor of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader\ \ \
