After Sex? - On Writing Since Queer TheoryPaperback
After Sex? - On Writing Since Queer TheoryPaperback Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and…
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After Sex? - On Writing Since Queer TheoryPaperback
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field's history, accomplishments, potential, and limitations. In After Sex?
For many of the contributors, a broad notion of sexuality is essential to queer thought. They consider the purpose of queer theory and the extent to which it is or is not defined by its engagement with sex and sexuality. At the same time, some of them caution against creating an all-embracing idea of queerness, because it empties the term "queer" of meaning and assumes the universality of ideas developed in the North American academy.
Some essays recall the political urgency of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when gay and lesbian activist and queer theory