American Queer, Now and Then
David Shneer ; Caryn Aviv
Contrasting queer life today and in years past, this landmark book brings together autobiographies, poetry, film studies, maps, documents, laws, and other texts to explore the meaning and practice of the word ‘queer’. By this Shneer and Aviv mean: queer as both a form of social violence and a call to political activism; queer as played by Robin Williams and Sharon Stone and as lived by Matthew Shepard and Brandon Teena; queer in the courthouses of Washington D.C. and on the streets of hometown America. Contextualizing these contemporary stories with ones from the past, and understanding them through the analytic tools of feminist social criticism and history, the authors show what it means to be queer in America.
David Shneer is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver.
Caryn Aviv is a Marsico Lecturer and an affiliated faculty with the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. Together they have coauthored Queer Jews (Routledge, 2002) and New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora (NYU, 2005).
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| ISBN | 9781594511714 |
| Genre | History |
| Publication Date | 2006 |
| Publisher | Paradigm Pub Co |
| Editor | David Shneer; Caryn Aviv |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 304 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Editor | David Shneer; Caryn Aviv |
| BookID | 456 |
