The queer turn in feminism : identities, sexualities, and the theater of gender /

At a time when gender and queer theories appear to its American proponents to have exhausted themselves, they are hailed in France as something new. Yet, more than any area of late 20th-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. The autho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Anne-Emmanuelle, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Commonalities.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Parabasis (Before the Act)
  • 2. Queens and Queers: The Theater of Gender in "America"
  • 3. Paradoxes of Visibility in / and Contemporary Identity Politics
  • 4. The Ends of an Idiom, or Sexual Difference in Translation
  • 5. Roxana's Legacy: Feminism and Capitalism in the West.