Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631229175 ISBN 13: 9780631229179

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays that over the past two decades have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital and important areas of study in both the humanities and social sciences.

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• Brings together important essays that have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital areas of study in the humanities and social sciences.
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• Includes an introductory essay by the editors that provides a context for this pivotal scholarship and promotes dialogue across disciplines.
  
• Discusses key issues in the field, including sexual politics, cultural construction of sexuality, transnationalism, race, community, sexual citizenship and the nation-state.
  
• Functions as a primary text for introductory as well as advanced courses, as a general introduction to the field, and as a scholarly resource.

About this title

Book Description:

Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays that over the past decade have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital and important areas of study in both the humanities and social sciences. Accessible as well as broadly interdisciplinary, the volume functions as a primary text for introductory as well as advanced courses in gender and sexuality studies, as a general introduction to the field, and as a scholarly resource. Queer Studies covers the full range of issues, problems, and controversies in this still emerging field, including sexual politics, cultural constructions of sexuality, transnationalism, race and class, community, sexual citizenship, and the nation-state. An introductory essay written by the editors provides a comprehensive map to this new field, as well as a context for pivotal scholarship that promotes dialogue across the humanities and the social sciences and the interdisciplinary fields of queer studies and women's studies.

About the Author:

Robert J. Corber is Associate Professor of American Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at Trinity College, Hartford. He is author of In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America (1993) and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (1997).

Stephen Valocchi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Hartford. He has published widely on the welfare state and on social movements in the United States, in particular the gay liberation movement. His essays have appeared in Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, and Critical Sociology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0631229175
• ISBN 13: 9780631229179
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Corber Robert J., Valocchi Stephen