Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The 'q' Word -- PART I IDENTITY -- 1 On Being Post-Normal: Heterosexuality after Queer Theory -- 2 Why Five Sexes Are Not Enough -- 3 'The Scholars Formerly Known as …': Bisexuality, Queerness and Identity Politics -- 4 The Curious Persistence of Lesbian Studies -- 5 Making it Like a Drag King:Female-to-Male Masculinity and the Trans Culture of Boyhood -- 6 Phenomenology, Embodiment and the Political Efficacy of Contingent Identity Claims -- 7 Queer Posthumanism: Cyborgs, Animals, Monsters, Perverts -- PART II DISCOURSE -- 8 Queering, Cripping -- 9 Generic Definitions: Taxonomies of Identity in AIDS Discourse -- 10 Rethinking the Place of Queer and the Erotic within Geographies of Sexualities -- 11 To 'Play the Sodomits': A Query in Five Actions -- 12 Queer, but Classless? -- 13 Queer-in the Sociology of Sport -- 14 'Things That Have the Potential to Go Terribly Wrong': Homosexuality, Paedophilia and the Kincora Boys' Home Scandal -- PART III NORMATIVITY -- 15 Queer Theory Goes to Taiwan -- 16 Queer Theory Meets Archaeology: Disrupting Epistemological Privilege and Heteronormativity in Constructing the Past -- 17 A Queer Case of Judicial Diversity: Sexuality, Law and Judicial Studies -- 18 Queerying Lesbian and Gay Psychology's 'Coming of Age': Was the Past Just Kids' Stuff? -- 19 'Nothing to Hide … Nothing to Fear': Discriminatory Surveillance and Queer Visibility in Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- 20 Biologically Queer -- 21 The New Queer Cartoon -- 22 Post-Queer Considerations -- PART IV RELATIONALITY -- 23 Intimate Counter-Normativities:A Queer Analysis of Personal Life in the Early Twenty-First Century -- 24 Queer Middle Ages -- 25 Smacking My Bitch Up: Queer or What?.

26 'Quare' Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother -- 27 'A Strange Perversity': Bringing Out Desire between Women in Frankenstein -- 28 Sex and the Lubricative Ethic -- 29 All Foucault and No Knickers: Assessing Claims for a Queer-Political Erotics -- Index.

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. A combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, put the terms 'queer' and 'theory' under interrogation in and effort to map the relations and disjunctions between them. These contributors are especially attendant to the many theoretical discourses intersecting with queer theory - feminist theory, LGBT studies, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, disability studies, Marxism, poststructuralism, critical race studies and posthumanism to name a few. This Companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of queer scholarship from the past two decades, identifies many current directions queer theorizing is taking, while also signposts several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable and authoritative resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom.

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