Turner situates queer theory within feminist and gay male scholarship, showing how Michel Foucault’s analyses of power and identity informed feminist critiques of universal political subjects—particularly the assumption of the white male citizen as a neutral foundation for political thought. Emphasizing the significance of difference, the book explores how race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality intersect to produce identities that are historically contingent and resistant to rigid definition.
The study examines how challenges to transhistorical categories such as “woman,” “man,” and “homosexual” helped launch queer theory as a new framework for thinking about gender and sexual politics. Turner also addresses the intense debates surrounding queer theory, including critiques that question whether queer approaches to textual interpretation and identity politics enable or hinder radical social change. Written from a historian’s perspective, the book considers the implications of queer theory for historical inquiry and clarifies its relationship to philosophy and political theory.n
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| ISBN: 9781566397872 |
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| Subject(s): Gays – Identity; Homosexuality – Philosophy; Lesbianism – Philosophy; Lesbians – Identity; Queer Theory |
| Publication Date: 2000-08-24 |
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| Publisher: Temple University Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 256 |
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| Book_ID: 105731 |