Playing with fire : queer politics, queer theories /

The last five years have witnessed the birth of a vibrant new group of young scholars who are writing about queer law, politics, and policy--topics which are no longer treated as of interest only to lesbians and gay men, but which now garner the attention of political theorists of all stripes. "...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Phelan, Shane (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1997.
Series:Thinking gender.
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Table of Contents:
  • Critically queer / Judith Butler
  • True or false: the self in radical lesbian feminist theory / Cynthia Burack
  • Dichotomies and displacement: bisexuality in queer theory and politics / Stacey Young
  • Lesbians and mestizas: appropriation and equivalence / Shane Phelan
  • Somewhere over the rainbow: queer translating / Angelia R. Wilson
  • The centering of right-wing extremism through the construction of an "inclusionary" homophobia and racism / Anna Marie Smith
  • Community, rights talk, and the communitarian dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick / Gordon A. Babst
  • Essentialism and the political articulation of identity / Gary Lehring
  • Intimacy and equality: the question of lesbian and gay marriage / Morris B. Kaplan
  • Politics, practices, publics: identity and queer rights / Paisley Currah
  • Queer problems, straight solutions: the limits of a politics of "official recognition" / Lisa Bower.