Queer Theories explores and aggressively expands the provocative new field of sexual identity studies. It covers the history of the terms 'gay' and 'lesbian' as identity categories, the reclamation of the word 'queer' as a term of radical self-identification, and the recent challenges to sexual identity studies posed by transgender and bisexual theories. Donald E. Hall also offers concrete applications of the abstract theories that he explores with imaginative new readings of works such as 'The Yellow Wallpaper', Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Orlando and The Color Purple
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Translators' preface: Le teorie queer di Lorenzo Bernini -- Introduction: studying queer theories in the Italian university -- 1. Critical theory and political philosophy -- 2. An exercise in queer critique: how does sexuality function? -- 3. Elements of queer theory -- Index.
Prolegomenon: queer theories and stem education / Steve Fifield and Will Letts -- I snow queen "nigger" : (school) science / Francis S. Broadway -- Queering science education without making too much sense / Steve Fifield and Will Letts -- Beyond nature talk : transforming environmental education with critical and queer theories / Blake M. R. Flessas and Timothy D. Zimmerman -- Wonder in the science classroom / Andrew Gilbert and Emily M. Gray -- Teaching queering physics : an agenda for research and practice / Helene Gotschel -- What does queer theory have to do with teaching science in elementary schools? / Kristin L. Gunckel -- Queering STEM learningscapes / Joe E. Heimlich -- What's in a name? : reflections on learning and teaching in central Texas / Tommye Hutson -- Strange precipitate : how interest in science produces different kinds of students / Kathryn L. Kirchgasler -- What makes girls and boys so desirable? : STEM education -- Beyond gender binaries / Michelle L. Knaier -- Children, nomads, and queering : desire and surprise in a wiggly world / Sheri Leafgren and Scott Sander -- Inviting the mess : a children's museum's transgressive tactics for unleashing play / Anna MacDermut and Adrian Zongrone -- Thinking like a fox : queering the science classroom when teaching about sex and sexuality / Michael J. Reiss -- Exhibiting doctors and nurses : queering professional education in a medical museum / Cecilia Rodehn -- Camping science education : a trip to camp wilde and the queer nature of nature / Nicholas Santavicca, Jesse Bazzul and Stephen Witzig -- Towards a queer curriculum of infinity : what is the biggest number you can think of? / James Sheldon -- Yearning, learning, and earning : the gritty ontologies of American engineering education / Amy E. Slaton, Erin A. Cech and Donna M. Riley -- The bargain / Charlotte Boulay.
Queer methods and methodologies provides the first systematic consideration of the implications of a queer perspective in the pursuit of social scientific research. The interdisciplinary perspective of this truly international volume will appeal to anyone pursing research at the intersections between social scientific research and queer perspectives, as well as those engaging with methodological considerations in social science research more broadly
Cover Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Queer Methods and Methodologies: An Introduction -- 1 Queer in the Field: On Emotions, Temporality and Performativity in Ethnography -- 2 Intimacy with Strangers/Intimacy with Self: Queer Experiences of Social Research -- 3 Brown, Queer and Gendered: Queering the Latina/o 'Street-Scapes' in Los Angeles. -- 4 The 'Outness' of Queer: Class and Sexual Intersections -- 5 Queer Methods and Queer Practices: Re-examining the Identities of Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Adults -- 6 Queer(ing) Communication in Research Relationships: A Conversation about Subjectivities, Methodologies and Ethics -- 7 The Trouble with Fieldwork: Queering Methodologies -- 8 Queer Conversations: Old-time Lesbians, Transmen and the Politics of Queer Research -- 9 Femme on Femme: Reflections on Collaborative Methods and Queer Femme-inist Ethnography -- 10 Queer(y)ing the Ethics of Research Methods: Toward a Politics of Intimacy in Researcher/Researched Relations -- 11 Method Matters: Ethnography and Materiality -- 12 Autoethnography is a Queer Method -- 13 Queer Techne: Two Theses on Methodology and Queer Studies -- 14 Queer Quantification or Queer(y)ing Quantification: Creating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Heterosexual Citizens through Governmental Social Research -- Bibliography
Was hat der Begriff Gender mit der Dekonstruktion zu tun, in deren Zeichen seit den 1960er Jahren eine radikale Kritik an den hierarchischen, machtgesättigten Grundoppositionen des abendländischen Denkens erfolgt? Inwiefern ist die Geschlechtsidentität gesellschaftlich konstruiert und wie kann sie dekonstruiert werden? In welchem Zusammenhang stehen die emanzipatorischen Ziele der Queer-Theorie mit dekonstruktiven Denkbewegungen? Entlang einer historisch systematischen Hinführung, eines Begriffsglossars und einer kommentierten Bibliographie widmet sich der Band den Grundlagen der Gender- und Queer-Theorie. Er richtet sich an Studierende aller geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und ist zugleich als Einführung und Nachschlagewerk geeignet.
Siguiendo a Leo Bersani y a Lee Edelman, se podría sostener que, insistiendo en la búsqueda de reconocimiento social por parte de las minorías sexuales, la teoría de la performatividad de género de Judith Butler corre el riesgo de desexualizar la sexualidad. Por otro lado, las así llamadas teorías queer antisociales, en particular las de Edelman, podrían ser consideradas como responsables de despolitizar la política queer, privando a su sujeto de la capacidad de actuar políticamente. El propósito de este artículo es mediar entre estas dos posiciones de la teoría queer sobre el plano de una teoría del sujeto, utilizando la interpretación que Teresa de Lauertis provee acerca del concepto de pulsión. ; Following Leo Bersani and Lee Edelman, one might say that, by insisting on sexual minorities' quest for social recognition, Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity runs the risk of desexualizing sexuality. On the other hand, so-called antisocial queer theory, and Edelman in particular, could be held responsible for depoliticizing queer politics, by depriving its subject of political agency. Aim of this article is to mediate between these two positions in queer theory on the level of a theory of the subject, by means of Teresa de Lauretis' understanding of the concept of the drive.
Following Leo Bersani and Lee Edelman, one might say that, by insisting on sexual minorities' quest for social recognition, Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity runs the risk of desexualizing sexuality. On the other hand, so-called antisocial queer theory, and Edelman in particular, could be held responsible for depoliticizing queer politics, by depriving its subject of political agency. Aim of this article is to mediate between these two positions in queer theory on the level of a theory of the subject, by means of Teresa de Lauretis' understanding of the concept of the drive. ; Siguiendo a Leo Bersani y a Lee Edelman, se podría sostener que, insistiendo en la búsqueda de reconocimiento social por parte de las minorías sexuales, la teoría de la performatividad de género de Judith Butler corre el riesgo de desexualizar la sexualidad. Por otro lado, las así llamadas teorías queer antisociales, en particular las de Edelman, podrían ser consideradas como responsables de despolitizar la política queer, privando a su sujeto de la capacidad de actuar políticamente. El propósito de este artículo es mediar entre estas dos posiciones de la teoría queer sobre el plano de una teoría del sujeto, utilizando la interpretación que Teresa de Lauertis provee acerca del concepto de pulsión.