PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

Queen, Carol, Schimel, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1573440744 / ISBN 13: 9781573440745

Published by Cleis Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

Title: PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About ...

Publisher: Cleis Press

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

PoMo: short for PostModern; in th earts, a movement following after and in direct reaction to Modernism; culturally, an outlook that acknowledges diverse and complex points of view.

PoMoSexual: the queer erotic reality beyond the boundaries of gender, separatism, and essentialist notions of sexual orientation.

Review:

We live in a complicated world, and according to PoMoSexuals, it is a lot more complicated than we thought. Now that society has become accustomed to the idea that gay men and lesbians exist, Lawrence Schimel and Carol Queen have brought together 15 essays dedicated to demolishing those categories. They are not, of course, arguing that homosexuals don't exist, but simply that these categories and words cannot do justice to the wondrous complexity of human sexuality. In PoMoSexuals you can read about heterosexual women who identify as gay men, the politics of placing a transgendered personal ad, and how trendy gay male ghetto culture is less about sexual liberation than brand-name accumulation. No matter what your sexual identity is, PoMoSexuals will startle and enlighten, provoke and entertain.