Queer: A Graphic History

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Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what’s ‘normal’ – Alfred Kinsey’s view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler’s view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we’re invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media. Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking. Cover Title Contents How to Introduce Queer Theory Who are You? Making Things Perfectly Queer Where We’re Headed What is “Queer”? “Queer” Meaning Strange “Queer” as Hate Speech Reclaiming “Queer” Queer Umbrella? Queerer Umbrella? Queering Queer Multiple Meanings of Queer Queer Interventions What Queer has in Common: Anti-identity Politics How We Came to Think this Way about Sex: A (Very) Potted History Understandings are Always Contextual The Early Sexologists Open and Closed Doors: Early Sexological Understandings Freud Open and Closed Doors: Freud’s Theories Masters and Johnson and Sex Therapy Open and Closed Doors: Early Sex Therapy Gay Rights Movement Open and Closed Doors: Early Gay Rights Movements How We Think about Sex Key Assumption 1: Identities are Fixed and Essential Key Assumption 2: Sexuality and Gender are Binary Key Assumption 3: Normal and Abnormal Sex Can Usefully be Distinguished Enter Queer Theory Precursors to Queer Theory The Existentialists Sartre’s Homosexual De Beauvoir Becoming Kinsey: Sexual Diversity Kinsey: Categories are an Invention Kinsey’s Legacy Simon and Gagnon’s Sexual Scripts Bem’s Androgyny Black Feminists Multiple Identities and Marginalization Rich’s Compulsory Heterosexuality (De)Constructing Compulsory Heterosexuality Wittig’s Straight Mind Crenshaw’s Intersectionality Rubin’s Thinking Sex The Sex Hierarchy The Domino Theory Gay Rights/Queer Activism After Stonewall Hiv/Aids and Activism Queer Agendas The Turn to Post-structuralism Post -structuralism 101 Occupying Our Identity Subjectivity Queer Theory is Born De Lauretis Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow? Key Features Foucault and Butler Michel Foucault The Panopticon Self-monitoring Society Neoliberal Consumer Capitalism Power Bodies and Normality Docile - and Insecure - Bodies Discourses and Technologies of the Self Power Relations Judith Butler The Category of Woman What Butler Saw The Assumptions of Identity Politics The Heterosexual Matrix Challenging the Heterosexual Matrix Gender Performativity Doing Gender Gender Trouble Foucault and Butler Recap Foucauldian-butlerian Resistance Heteronormativity Heteronormativity, Homophobia, and Heterosexism ...Oh My! Straight Privilege Problems with Privilege Other Normativities Interrogating Heteronormativity Inside/Out Coming Out Sedgwick: How to Bring Your Kids up Gay The Epistemology of the Closet Nature/Nurture Assumed Norms Queer Beyond Sexuality and Gender Queer Engagements Focus on Texts Discourse Analysis Playing with Language Queering Queer Moments Camp Halberstam and Low Theory “Dude, Where’s My Gender?” Collectivism in Finding Nemo Queer Art Guerrilla Tactics Queer Biology Nature/Nurture The Heteronormative Gaze of Science Evolution’s Rainbow and Biological Exuberance Sexing the Body Delusions of Gender Biopsychosocial Sexual Configurations Critical Sexology Features of Critical Sexology Thinking from the Margins Kink Open Non-monogamy Queering Sexual Medicine Queering Sex Therapy Criticisms and Tensions Why Should Race be Central to Queer Theory? Interrogating Race Responses to This Marginalization of Race White Minority-world Focus Southern Theory Queer Goes Global Strategic Essentialism A Place for Identity Politics after All? Queer and Bisexuality Erasing Bisexuality Queer and Feminism Queer Feminism? Queer Masculinity Queer and Trans: The Terf Wars Butler on Trans Co-opting Trans Experience? Trans Studies Genderqueer Cisgenderism Materiality Matters Lived Experiences Inaccessible? Ineffective? Driven by Fashion? Good Queers and Bad Not-Queers W(h)ither Queer Theory? The Trouble with Normal The Crab Bucket New Normativities Polynormativity and Kinknormativity It Ain’t What You Do, It’s the Way that You Do It. Another Funny Turn No Future Queer Feelings Affective and Temporality Turns Queer Subjectivity Queer Beyond Queer One Step Beyond Post-Queer? Queer Communities Queering Communities Queer Ways Through the Double Binds? Thinking Queerly Thinking (Completely) Queerly Resources Acknowledgements Biographies