Barker and Scheele invite you to question the status quo and to start seeing things more queerly Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- How to Introduce Queer Theory -- Who are You? -- Making Things Perfectly Queer -- Where We're Headed -- What is...
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Barker and Scheele invite you to question the status quo and to start seeing things more queerly Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- How to Introduce Queer Theory -- Who are You? -- Making Things Perfectly Queer -- Where We're Headed -- What is "Queer"? -- "Queer" Meaning Strange -- "Queer" as Hate Speech -- Reclaiming "Queer" -- Queer Umbrella? -- Queerer Umbrella? -- Queering Queer -- Multiple Meanings of Queer -- Queer Interventions -- What Queer has in Common: Anti-identity Politics -- How We Came to Think this Way about Sex: A (Very) Potted History -- Understandings are Always Contextual -- The Early Sexologists -- Open and Closed Doors: Early Sexological Understandings -- Freud -- Open and Closed Doors: Freud's Theories -- Masters and Johnson and Sex Therapy -- Open and Closed Doors: Early Sex Therapy -- Gay Rights Movement -- Open and Closed Doors: Early Gay Rights Movements -- How We Think about Sex -- Key Assumption 1: Identities are Fixed and Essential -- Key Assumption 2: Sexuality and Gender are Binary -- Key Assumption 3: Normal and Abnormal Sex Can Usefully be Distinguished -- Enter Queer Theory -- Precursors to Queer Theory -- The Existentialists -- Sartre's Homosexual -- De Beauvoir -- Becoming -- Kinsey: Sexual Diversity -- Kinsey: Categories are an Invention -- Kinsey's Legacy -- Simon and Gagnon's Sexual Scripts -- Bem's Androgyny -- Black Feminists -- Multiple Identities and Marginalization -- Rich's Compulsory Heterosexuality -- (De)Constructing Compulsory Heterosexuality -- Wittig's Straight Mind -- Crenshaw's Intersectionality -- Rubin's Thinking Sex -- The Sex Hierarchy -- The Domino Theory -- Gay Rights/Queer Activism -- After Stonewall -- Hiv/Aids and Activism -- Queer Agendas -- The Turn to Post-structuralism -- Post -structuralism 101 -- Occupying Our Identity -- Subjectivity -- Queer Theory is Born -- De Lauretis -- Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow? -- Key Features -- Foucault and Butler -- Michel Foucault The Panopticon -- Self-monitoring Society -- Neoliberal Consumer Capitalism -- Power -- Bodies and Normality -- Docile - and Insecure - Bodies -- Discourses and Technologies of the Self -- Power Relations -- Judith Butler -- The Category of Woman -- What Butler Saw -- The Assumptions of Identity Politics -- The Heterosexual Matrix -- Challenging the Heterosexual Matrix -- Gender Performativity -- Doing Gender -- Gender Trouble -- Foucault and Butler Recap -- Foucauldian-butlerian Resistance -- Heteronormativity -- Heteronormativity, Homophobia, and Heterosexism -- ...Oh My! -- Straight Privilege -- Problems with Privilege -- Other Normativities -- Interrogating Heteronormativity -- Inside/Out -- Coming Out -- Sedgwick: How to Bring Your Kids up Gay -- The Epistemology of the Closet -- Nature/Nurture -- Assumed Norms -- Queer Beyond Sexuality and Gender -- Queer Engagements -- Focus on Texts -- Discourse Analysis -- Playing with Language -- Queering -- Queer Moments -- Camp -- Halberstam and Low Theory -- "Dude, Where's My Gender?" -- Collectivism in Finding Nemo -- Queer Art -- Guerrilla Tactics -- Queer Biology -- Nature/Nurture -- The Heteronormative Gaze of Science -- Evolution's Rainbow and Biological Exuberance -- Sexing the Body -- Delusions of Gender -- Biopsychosocial -- Sexual Configurations -- Critical Sexology -- Features of Critical Sexology -- Thinking from the Margins -- Kink -- Open Non-monogamy -- Queering Sexual Medicine -- Queering Sex Therapy -- Criticisms and Tensions -- Why Should Race be Central to Queer Theory? -- Interrogating Race -- Responses to This Marginalization of Race -- White Minority-world Focus -- Southern Theory -- Queer Goes Global -- Strategic Essentialism -- A Place for Identity Politics after All? -- Queer and Bisexuality -- Erasing Bisexuality -- Queer and Feminism -- Queer Feminism? -- Queer Masculinity Queer and Trans: The Terf Wars -- Butler on Trans -- Co-opting Trans Experience? -- Trans Studies -- Genderqueer -- Cisgenderism -- Materiality Matters -- Lived Experiences -- Inaccessible? -- Ineffective? -- Driven by Fashion? -- Good Queers and Bad Not-Queers -- W(h)ither Queer Theory? -- The Trouble with Normal -- The Crab Bucket -- New Normativities -- Polynormativity and Kinknormativity -- It Ain't What You Do, It's the Way that You Do It. -- Another Funny Turn -- No Future -- Queer Feelings -- Affective and Temporality Turns -- Queer Subjectivity -- Queer Beyond Queer -- One Step Beyond -- Post-Queer? -- Queer Communities -- Queering Communities -- Queer Ways Through the Double Binds? -- Thinking Queerly -- Thinking (Completely) Queerly -- Resources -- Acknowledgements -- Biographies