Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory [Hardcover]

Queer ideas have unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality in particular feminism and feminists have been significant critics. This book explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing to seek out interconnections and identify new directions in thinking about sexuality and gender that may emerge out of and at the interface.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: At the Intersections of Feminist and Queer Debates; J.McLaughlin, M.E.Casey & D.Richardson Bordering Theory; D.Richardson Heterosexuality, Sexuality and Gender: Re-thinking the Intersections; S.Jackson The Return of the Material: Cycles of Theoretical Fashion in Lesbian, Gay and Queer Studies; J.McLaughlin On the Evolution of Queer Studies: Lesbian Feminism, Queer Theory and Globalization; L.Garber Boys will be bois? Or Transgender Feminism and the Forgetful Fish; J.Halberstam The Value of a Second Skin; R.Hennessy Refiguring the Family: Toward a Post-Queer Politics of Gay and Lesbian Marriage; C.Meeks & A.Stein Practically between Post-Menopause and Post-Modern; A.R.Wilson References Index

'Challenging narrowly discursive and deconstructive approaches, Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory brings together a stellar list of international scholars to make a powerful case for a theoretically robust, 'materialist' and intersectional approach to the critical analysis of gender and sexuality. This text is brimming with novel and exciting ideas about what a critical gender and sexualities studies should look like as we confront the tough realities of the present.' - Steven Seidman, Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, USA, and author of Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today

'Enjoyable, interesting and timely.' - Sexualities

LINDA GARBER Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's and Gender Studies, Santa Clara University, USAJUDITH HALBERSTAM Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Feminislƒ<