The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Rifkin, Mark

ISBN 10: 1009435612 / ISBN 13: 9781009435611

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009435612
• ISBN 13: 9781009435611
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretching from early figures (such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Cathy Cohen, José Muñoz, and Sandy Stone) to the most recent scholarship, it offers a rich account of these fields' major ideas and contributions while indicating how they have evolved. Centering race and empire, the book offers extended discussion of work in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American studies as well as engaging the Global South. The Introduction further addresses historical considerations of sexuality and gender identity, and queer and trans temporalities, while also providing a robust account of social and political movements that preceded the emergence of queer and trans studies as scholarly fields. Accessible for those unfamiliar with these areas of study, it is also a great resource for those already working in them.

About the Author

Mark Rifkin is Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of eight other books, including The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance (2024), Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination (2017), and When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty (2011). His work has won a number of national awards, including the John Hope Franklin Prize for best book in American Studies, the Subsequent Book Prize from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and the Best Special Issue award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. He also has served as president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.