After Foucault

After Foucault
Author: Lisa Downing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107140498

Contributes to Foucauldian scholarship by contextualizing Foucault's key concepts and identifying current and emerging applications of his work.

Foucault and Queer Theory

Foucault and Queer Theory
Author: Tamsin Spargo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 81
Release: 1999
Genre: Homosexuality
ISBN: 9781840465013

Provides an introduction to Foucault's ideas and the development of queer culture with its own views on heteronormativity, sado-masochism, performativity, transgender, the end of gender, liberation-versus-difference, late capitalism and the impact of AIDS on theories and practices.

Foucault and Queer Theory

Foucault and Queer Theory
Author: Tamsin Spargo
Publisher: Totem Books
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Foucault's theories on power, crime and sexuality have enourmously influenced the postmodern debates within postfeminism, cultural studies, sociology, and history.

Queer Theory

Queer Theory
Author: Annamarie Jagose
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814742343

This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.

Queer Theories: An Introduction

Queer Theories: An Introduction
Author: Lorenzo Bernini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429515545

This is a short and accessible introduction to the complex and evolving debates around queer theories, advocating for their critical role in academia and society. The book traces the roots of queer theories and argues that Foucault owed an important debt to other European authors including the feminist and homosexual liberation movements of the 1960–1970s and the anticolonial movements of the 1950s. Going beyond a simple introduction to queer theories, this book situates them firmly in a European and Italian context to offer a crucial set of arguments in defence of LGBTQI+ rights, in defence of the freedom of teaching and research, and in defence of a radical idea of democracy. The narrative of the book is divided into three short chapters which can be read independently or in sequence. The first chapter argues that queer theories are rooted in the critical philosophical tradition, the second presents a critique of heterosexism and the binary inherent to the gender-sex-sexual orientation system, and the third chapter sketches a history of the queer debate. The book offers a useful typology of queer theories by sorting them into three basic paradigms: Freudo-Marxism, radical constructivism, and antisocial and affective theories, clarifying the complexities of the nature of the debates for undergraduates. The book is both accessible and original, and is suitable for both specialist researchers and undergraduate students new to queer studies. It will be essential reading for those studying philosophy, sexuality studies and gender studies.

Bisexuality and Queer Theory

Bisexuality and Queer Theory
Author: Jonathan Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317995554

According to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a "crisis in contemporary sexual definition". What is sexuality? What does it mean to have a sexual identity or orientation? What is the relationship between sexuality as a knowledge construct, on one hand, and the often messy flows of desire and practices of love, on the other? How and why are some sexual, erotic, and intimate practices normalized and others marginalized? Queer Theory has emerged in the West as one of the most provocative analytical tools in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes identity and social structures that take heteronormativity for granted – that do not question the social construction of heterosexuality as normative in relation to its oppositional binary, homosexuality. At the same time, bisexuality is a practice, identity, and orientation that challenges the binary logic around which cultural notions of sexuality are organized. It is a portal to the imagination of a world of amorous expression beyond that divide. This provocative collection presents bisexuality and queer theory as two parallel thought collectives that have made significant contributions to cultural discourses about sexual and amorous practices since the onset of the AIDS era, and explores the ideas that circulate in these thought collectives today. We learn much about the construction and experience of sexuality, and the power it still holds throughout the contemporary Western world to shape identities and practices. This volume challenges our understanding of what it means to be sexual, to have a sexual identity, and to practise the arts of loving. This book was orginally published as a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.

A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
Author: Nikki Sullivan
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814798403

This book begins by putting gay & lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged.

Saint Foucault

Saint Foucault
Author: David M. Halperin
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195111273

Although there is scarcely more than a mention of homosexuality in his scholarly writings, Michel Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, has become a source of inspiration to a generation of gay activists. This book provides a defence of Foucault's work.

The Routledge Guidebook to Foucault's The History of Sexuality

The Routledge Guidebook to Foucault's The History of Sexuality
Author: Chloe Taylor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317539079

Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality is one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century and has been instrumental in shaping the study of Gender, Feminist Theory and Queer Theory. But Foucault’s writing can be a difficult book to grasp as Foucault assumes a familiarity with the intellectually dominant theories of his time which renders many passages obscure for newcomers to his work. The Routledge Guidebook to Foucault’s The History of Sexuality offers a clear and comprehensive guide to this groundbreaking work, examining: The historical context in which Foucault wrote A critical discussion of the text, which examines the relationship between The History of Sexuality, The Use of Pleasure and The Care of The Self The reception and ongoing influence of The History of Sexuality Offering a close reading of the text, this is essential reading for anyone studying this enormously influential work.

A Genealogy of Queer Theory

A Genealogy of Queer Theory
Author: William Benjamin Turner
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781566397872

Who are queers, and what do they want? Could it be that we are all queers? Beginning with such questions, this book traces the roots of queer theory, examining the growing awareness that few people precisely fit standard categories for sexual and gender identities.