By: Diane Richardson (Editor), Janice McLaughlin (Editor), Mark E. Casey (Editor)

Paperback

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The emergence of queer ideas has unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality, in particular, feminism. In response, feminists have been significant critics of queer ideas. This book, through the contribution of important US and UK writers, explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing in order to seek out interconnections between the two and identify new directions in thinking about sexuality and gender that may emerge out of and at the interface.

How are questions of cultures and identities being reconfigured? What political communities and strategies are becoming possible and impossible in this context? What kinds of theoretical connections and alliances are being made? In addressing these and other questions the chapter authors explore themes such as: queer or feminist?; the distance between the global and local; bringing material and cultural analysis together; and the general legacy of feminism and queer theory. Now in paperback, the book also includes a new Preface by the editors that highlights the recent changes across feminist and queer studies.

'Challenging narrowly discursive and deconstructive approaches, Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory brings together a stellar list of international scholars to make a powerful case for a theoretically robust, 'materialist' and intersectional approach to the critical analysis of gender and sexuality. This text is brimming with novel and exciting ideas about what a critical gender and sexualities studies should look like as we confront the tough realities of the present.' - Steven Seidman, Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, USA, and author of Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today 'Enjoyable, interesting and timely.' - Sexualities

Preface to the Paperback	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Notes on Contributors	p. xvi
Introduction: At the Intersections of Feminist and Queer Debates	p. 1
Bordering Theory	p. 19
Heterosexuality, Sexuality and Gender: Re-thinking the Intersections	p. 38
The Return of the Material: Cycles of Theoretical Fashion in Lesbian, Gay and Queer Studies	p. 59
On the Evolution of Queer Studies: Lesbian Feminism, Queer Theory and Globalization	p. 78
Boys will be … Bois?: Or, Transgender Feminism and Forgetful Fish	p. 97
The Value of a Second Skin	p. 116
Reflguring the Family: Towards a Post-Queer Politics of Gay and Lesbian Marriage	p. 136
Practically Between Post-Menopause and Post-Modem	p. 156
References	p. 174
Index	p. 189
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ISBN: 9780230296350
ISBN-10: 0230296351
Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 200
Published: 15th May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 21.7 x 13.8  x 1.2
Weight (kg): 0.276