Queer Ideas by Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies

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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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

Author: LFWBooks