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Thema: Queer Theory / Gender Theory

Queer Theory ist eine Kulturtheorie, die den Zusammenhang zwischen gesellschaftlichen Geschlechterrollen, sexuellem Begehren und biologischem Geschlecht kritisch untersucht. Queer Theory steht in engem Verhältnis zu Gender Studies, bezieht sich aber im Unterschied zu diesen vor allem immer wieder auch auf den zentralen Aspekt der Identitätsfindung des bzw. der nicht konformen Einzelnen. Häufig werden allerdings beide Ansätze vor allem im deutschsprachigen Raum nicht scharf voneinander getrennt, weshalb wir sie bei uns unter einem Schlagwort fassen.

Daniel Boyarin / Daniel Itzkovitz (eds.): Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

USA 2003, 464 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Columbia University Press

The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing ... Weiterlesen

Nikki Sullivan: A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

USA 2003, 232 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Nikki Sullivan explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity, and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how, and why, queer theory emerged in the West in the late 20th century. It goes on to provide a detailed overview of ... Weiterlesen

Chris Holmlund: Impossible Bodies

UK 2002, 237 pp., brochure, € 26.99
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The book investigates issues of ethnicity, gender and sexuality at the margins of contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood to Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez, the author focuses on actors whose physique or appearance marks them as unusual or exceptional, and yet who occupy key or revealing positions in today's mainstream cinema. Exploring a range of ... Weiterlesen

Ellen Lewin, William Leap (eds.): Out in Theory

USA 2002, 330 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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This collection details the scholarly and personal factors that affected the emergence of lesbian and gay anthropology and speculates on the directions it will take as it continues to diversify. Seeking to legitimize the field's scholarship and address issues in terminology, the essays also define the lesbian and gay scope and locate factors that separate it from the wider concerns ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: Female Masculinity

USA/UK 1998, 330 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Duke University Press

Masculinity without men: in »Female Masculinity«, Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from 19th-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag ... Weiterlesen

Annamarie Jagose: Queer Theory

USA 1997, 153 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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New York University Press

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, from mid-century homophile movements to gay liberation, the women's movement and lesbian feminism, to the re-appropriation of the term »queer.« Carefully interrogating the arguments of supporters and opponents of queer theory, Jagose suggests that ... Weiterlesen

Tim Edwards: Erotics and Politics

Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism. UK 1994, 208 pp., brochure, € 49.00
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Taylor and Francis

Erotics and Politics provides an interface between the study of sexuality (particularly gay male studies) and gender (primarily feminism). In doing so it covers a wide range of issues of concern to gay and feminist movements over the past twenty five years including gay liberational sexuality, sado-masochism, pornography, promiscuity, personal relationships, AIDS and postmodernity. The central focus of attention throughout ... Weiterlesen

Judith Butler: Bodies That Matter

UK/USA/CAN 2011, 219 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Routledge

In »Bodies That Matter«, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most »material« dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the »matter« of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain »sex« from ... Weiterlesen

David L. Eng: The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, € 41.99
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The author investigates the emergence of »queer liberalism« - the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the U.S., economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. He argues that in our »colorblind« age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom ... Weiterlesen