Queering The Non Human

Author : Myra J. Hird,Noreen Giffney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317072430

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Queering the Non/Human by Myra J. Hird,Noreen Giffney Pdf

What might it mean to queer the Human? By extension, how is the Human employed within queer theory? These questions invite a reconsideration of the way we think about queer theory, the category of the Human and the act of queering itself. This interdisciplinary volume of essays gathers together essays by international pioneering scholars in queer theory, critical theory, cultural studies and science studies who have written on topics as diverse as Christ, the Antichrist, dogs, starfish, werewolves, vampires, murderous dolls, cartoons, corpses, bacteria, nanoengineering, biomesis, the incest taboo, the death drive and the 'queer' in queer theory. Contributors include Robert Azzarello, Karen Barad, Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Claire Colebrook, Noreen Giffney, Judith Halberstam, Donna J. Haraway, Eva Hayward, Myra J. Hird, Karalyn Kendall, Vicki Kirby, Alice Kuzniar, Patricia MacCormack, Robert Mills, Luciana Parisi and Erin Runions.

Author : Noreen Giffney,Myra J. Hird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Homosexuality
ISBN : 1315603306

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Queering the Non/human by Noreen Giffney,Myra J. Hird Pdf

Author : Elahe Haschemi Yekani,Eveline Kilian,Beatrice Michaelis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317072751

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Queer Futures by Elahe Haschemi Yekani,Eveline Kilian,Beatrice Michaelis Pdf

Following debates surrounding the anti-social turn in queer theory in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the role of activism, the limits of the political, and the question of normativity and ethics. Queer Futures engages with these concerns, exploring issues of complicity and agency with a central focus on the material and economic as well as philosophical dimensions of sexual politics. Presenting some of the latest research in queer theory, this book draws together diverse perspectives to shed light on possible ’queer futures’ when different affective, temporal, and local contexts are brought into play. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural, political, literary, and social theory, as well as those with interests in gender and sexuality, activism, and queer theory.

Author : Bruce Henderson
Publisher : Harrington Park Press, LLC
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1939594332

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Queer Studies by Bruce Henderson Pdf

Queer Studies is designed as an advanced undergraduate textbook in queer studies for this rapidly growing field. It is also appropriate as a required or recommended graduate textbook. The author uses the overarching concept of queering as a way of looking at the lives of queer people across a range of disciplines.

Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814737194

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Another Country by Scott Herring Pdf

'Another Country' expands the possibilities of queer studies beyond the city limits, investigating the lives of rural queers across the United States, from faeries in the Midwest to lesbian separatist communes on the coast of Northern California.

Author : Nicole Seymour
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252094873

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Strange Natures by Nicole Seymour Pdf

In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities.

Author : Noreen Giffney,Michael O'Rourke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317041887

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory by Noreen Giffney,Michael O'Rourke Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. The terms ’queer’ and ’theory’ are put under interrogation by a combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, in an effort to map the relations and disjunctions between them. These contributors are especially attendant to the many theoretical discourses intersecting with queer theory, including 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 and identifies many current directions queer theorizing is taking, while also signposting 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.

Author : Stacy Holman Jones,Anne M. Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498541008

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The Queer Life of Things by Stacy Holman Jones,Anne M. Harris Pdf

In The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human, Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones offer readers a series of chapters united in their fascination with the animals, plants, and things with whom we share and compose our lives. Harris and Holman Jones pick up and follow bread-crumb trails of new materialist, posthumanist, affect, performance, and feminist theoretics as they explore contemporary life and world-making. They use queer theory to break open and go beyond reason, searching for ethical and artful ways of sustaining ourselves, our multi-species companions, and our planet.

Author : Jack Halberstam,Judith Halberstam
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822350453

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The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam,Judith Halberstam Pdf

DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div

Author : Mel Y. Chen,Dana Luciano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0822368277

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Queer Inhumanisms by Mel Y. Chen,Dana Luciano Pdf

This issue features a group of leading theorists from multiple disciplines who decenter the human in queer theory, exploring what it means to treat "the human" as simply one of many elements in a queer critical assemblage. Contributors examine the queer dimensions of recent moves to think apart from or beyond the human in affect theory, disability studies, critical race theory, animal studies, science studies, ecocriticism, and other new materialisms. Essay topics include race, fabulation, and ecology; parasitology, humans, and mosquitoes; the racialization of advocacy for pit bulls; and queer kinship in Korean films when humans become indistinguishable from weapons. The contributors argue that a nonhuman critical turn in queer theory can and should refocus the field's founding attention to social structures of dehumanization and oppression. They find new critical energies that allow considerations of justice to operate alongside and through their questioning of the human-nonhuman boundary. Mel Y. Chen, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, also published by Duke University Press. Dana Luciano is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America and editor, with Ivy G. Wilson, of Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. Contributors: Neel Ahuja, Karen Barad, Jayna Brown, Mel Y. Chen, Jack Halberstam, Jinthana Haritaworn, Myra Hird, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Eileen Joy, Eunjung Kim, Dana Luciano, Uri McMillan, José Esteban Muñoz, Tavia Nyong'o, ​Jasbir K. Puar, Susan Stryker, Kimberly Tallbear, Jeanne Vaccaro, Harlan Weaver, Jami Weinstein

Author : J.L. Schatz,Sean Parson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498549271

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Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies by J.L. Schatz,Sean Parson Pdf

This book brings together comic studies and critical animal studies to provide a critical media analysis that centralizes total liberation for all beings—both human and nonhuman. Through the lens of superheroes, the book explores the cultural and literal consumption of nonhumans as a strategy for confronting humanism at large.

Author : M. Hird
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230510715

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Sex, Gender, and Science by M. Hird Pdf

In Sex, Gender and Science , Myra Hird outlines the social study of science and nature, specifically in relation to 'sex', sex 'differences' and sexuality. She examines how Western understandings of 'sex' are based less upon understanding material sex differences, than on a discourse that emphasizes sex dichotomy over sex diversity and argues for a feminist engagement with scientific debate that embraces the diversity and complexity of nature.

Author : Kim Q. Hall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786609434

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Queering Philosophy by Kim Q. Hall Pdf

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Queering Philosophy provides a critical introduction to and engagement with current conversations and emerging themes at the nexus of queer theory and philosophy. Much more than a summary of recent work, this book presents an intersectional, thematic approach that highlights scholarship at the cutting edge of queer, feminist, disability, and critical race theories, defines the parameters of contemporary queer philosophy, and argues that a queer philosophy must aim to queer philosophy. Queering Philosophy explores the possibility of doing philosophy otherwise. In doing so, the book explores feminist, critical race, and critical disability theories to advance a queer feminist critique, and challenges the unacknowledged whiteness and other forms of marginalization that have characterized the mainstream of philosophy and queer theory’s archive. This accessible and important book is ideal for courses in philosophy and gender, sexuality, race and disability studies.

Author : M. Hird
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230242210

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The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies by M. Hird Pdf

This ambitious book considers social scientific topics such as identity, community, sexual difference, self, and ecology from a microbial perspective. Harnessing research and evidence from earth systems science and microbiology, and particularly focusing on symbiosis and symbiogenesis, the book argues for the development of a microontology of life.

Author : Elizabeth Freeman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822348047

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Time Binds by Elizabeth Freeman Pdf

By foregrounding bodily pleasure in the experience of time and its representation in queer literature, film, video, and art, Elizabeth Freeman challenges queer theorys recent emphasis on loss and trauma.