Queer Ideas
The David R. Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies
This volume brings together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies. Participants in the outstanding Kessler series, hosted by CLAGS, the premiere U.S. think-tank in the field, they present ten -diverse approaches to the experiences, history, and culture of lesbian and gay people, and in the process they think new and queer ideas into being. Beginning with Joan Nestle, who explores the outsider status of lesbians through the complex life a black lesbian domestic worker, and ending with Judith Butler, who speaks on -human rights in the aftermath of -September 11. The collection includes the pantheon of queer theorists: Edmund White on queer fiction and criticism, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the dialogics of love, and John D’Emilio on gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
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Details
| ISBN | 9781558614499 |
| Genre | Lesbian Studies |
| Publication Date | 01-Dec-03 |
| Publisher | Feminist Press at CUNY |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 215 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Gay and lesbian studies; Gay And Lesbian Studies – United States; Gay And Lesbian Studies/ United States; Social Science / Gay Studies; Social Science / Lesbian Studies |
| BookID | 10315 |
