This essential introductory guide explores and aggressively expands the provocative new field of sexual identity studies. It explains the history of sexual identity categories, such as 'gay' and 'lesbian', covers the reclamation of 'queer' as a term of radical self-identification, and details recent challenges to sexual identity studies posed by transgender and bisexual theories. Donald E. Hall offers concrete applications of the abstract theories he explores, with imaginative new readings of such works as 'The Yellow Wallpaper', Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Orlando and The Color Purple. Throughout, Hall urges the reader to grapple with the changing nature of sexual identity in the twenty-first century and asks searching questions about how we might identify ourselves differently given new techlogies and new possibilities for sexual experimentation. To students, theorists and activists alike, Queer Theories issues a challenge to continue to disrupt narrow, traditional tions of sexual 'rmality' and to resist setting up new and confining categories of 'true' sexual identity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
0333775406
ISBN-13
9780333775400
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95482679
Product Key Features
Author
Donald E. Hall
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Gender Studies / Gay & Lesbian Studies
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
296g
Height
235mm
Width
155mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Basingstoke
Spine
11mm
Series Title
Transitions
Content Note
Biography
Author Biography
Donald E. Hall Is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge.