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Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler -- Boys will be girls : the politics of gay drag / Carole-Anne Tyler -- Who are "we"? : gay "identity" as political (e)motion (A theoretical rumination) / Ed Cohen -- Seeing things : representation, the scene of surveillance, and the spectacle of gay male sex / Lee Edelman -- Anal Rope / D.A. Miller -- Female spectator, lesbian specter : The haunting / Patricia White -- A parallax view of lesbian authorship / Judith Mayne -- Believing in fairies : the author and the homosexual / Richard Dyer -- The queen's throat : (homo)sexuality and the art of singing / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Below the belt :(un)covering The well of loneliness / Michèle Aina Barale -- Rock Hudson's body / Richard Meyer -- AIDS in America : postmodern governance, identity, and experience / Thomas Yingling -- "All the sad young men" : AIDS and the work of mourning / Jeff Nunokawa

The role played by the theoretical & quantitative revolution in geography is outlined, with particular emphasis on how geographic theory evolved & came to differ from other discipline-based theories. Differences between the initial descriptive spatial theories & the later normative mathematically based theories are emphasized. The making of geographic theory from economic principles is acknowledged & the way that spatial & nonspatial concepts are linked to provide a powerful, normative, well-formed theory is illustrated. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the reasoning & inferential processes used in theory construction, & essential spatial or geographic processes are acknowledged. The transition between descriptive & analytical models is shown in the context of urban settlement & form. Also detailed is the transition from descriptive to normative to process-based theories as geography matured. 9 Figures, 26 References. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- I. THEORIES OF IDEOLOGY -- The Levels of Consciousness: Some remarks on sociology of knowledge -- Ideology versus Utopia. A contribution to the analysis of the role of social consciousness in the movement of socio-economic formation -- The Antagonism of Art and Science as a Worldview Component -- II. IDEOLOGY OF THEORIES -- Scientism and Anti-scientism -- Science, that is, Domination through Truth -- Recasting Marxism: Habermas's Proposals -- DISCUSSION -- A Statistical Model of Data Analysis in Interactional Psychology. Comments on the quantitative analysis of the scores of the "S-R" Inventory of Anxiousness -- PERSPEKTIVEN DER PHILOSOPHIE.

The emergence of geographical theory was an inevitable product of the desire to systematize existing geographic knowledge and to use that systematized base to explore new areas of knowledge. Although the usefulness of theory and predictive models in geography is by now a matter of record, it was not always the case. The usefulness and need for theories was often disputed, despite the oft-repeated argument that theories of location explained the laws of spatial distributions, theories of interaction explain the laws of movement and spatial behaviour, theories of growth and development explain the nature of past, present, and future states of being, and theories of decision-making and choice explain observable regularities and repeatable trends in individual, group, institutional and governmental behaviours. Hudson (1969) argued that a theory represents a direct attempt to provide a logical system or nesting place for previously noted regularities – in his case concerning changes in rural settlement patterns. While Hudson's task was specific, the sentiment he expressed has widespread relevance for the emergence and adoption of geographical theories generally.

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

Offers a survey of contemporary sociological theory including: a characterization of theory in the discipline; the relation between history of theory & systematic theory; the levels of formalization of theory; the uses & value of sociological theory; & the issue of scientific accumulation of theory. The principal division between macro & microsociological theories & their major subtypes is sketched, & some of the major debates in contemporary theory are identified. Discussion includes several key questions that must be asked if a theory is to be properly understood & criticized. 1 Photograph, 57 References. Adapted from the source document.

John Vasquez claims to follow Imre Lakatos but distorts his criteria for judging theories and evaluating research programs. Vasquez claims that facts observed can falsify a theory by showing that its predictions are wrong. He fails to consider the puzzles posed by the interdependence of theory and fact. He places all realists in a single paradigm despite the divergent assumptions of traditional and structural realists. In contrast to Vasquez, I argue that explanation, not prediction, is the ultimate criterion of good theory, that a theory can be validated only by working back and forth between its implications and an uncertain state of affairs that we take to be the reality against which theory is tested, and that the results of tests are always problematic.

Feminist critiques can provide new insights into organizational theories by examining the historical context in which these theories emerged, the research methods in which the theories are grounded, and the assumptions underlying the theories themselves. This paper applies a feminist critique to sociological theories of entrepreneurship. First, the sociological theories are described, focusing on the effects of political factors, state policies, culture, spatial location, and professionalization on entrepreneurship. This is followed by an analysis of these sociological theories investigating the values embedded in these theories and demonstrating how they can take gender relations into consideration. Finally, several directions for future research are discussed along with the potential feminist theories which have to produce change at the societal level.