Queer Companions

Queer Companions
Author: Omar Kasmani
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478022655

In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place’s patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state’s infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making with saints.

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
Author: Siobhan B. Somerville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-06-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108594565

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and studies of digital culture. Rather than being organized around a set of literary texts defined by a particular theme, literary movement, or demographic, this volume foregrounds a queer critical approach that moves across a wide array of literary traditions, genres, historical periods, national contexts, and media. This book traces the intellectual and political emergence of queer studies, addresses relevant critical debates in the field, provides an overview of queer approaches to genres, and explains how queer approaches have transformed understandings of key concepts in multiple fields.

Queer Theology

Queer Theology
Author: Linn Marie Tonstad
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498218806

What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue for a queer theology that builds on the interconnection of theology with sex and money. Thoroughly grounded in queer theory as well as in Christian theology, Queer Theology grapples with the fundamental challenges of the body, sex, and death, as these are where queerness and Christianity find (and, maybe, lose) each other.

A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
Author: George E. Haggerty
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1119000858

A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies is the first single volume survey of current discussions taking place in this rapidly developing area of study. Recognizing the multidisciplinary nature of the field, the editors gather new essays by an international team of established and emerging scholars Addresses the politics, economics, history, and cultural impact of sexuality Engages the future of queer studies by asking what sexuality stands for, what work it does, and how it continues to structure discussions in various academic disciplines as well as contemporary politics

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature
Author: Jodie Medd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316453561

The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing
Author: Hugh Stevens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521888441

In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing introduces readers to important concepts, methods and cultural and historical debates relevant to the study of sexuality and literature.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory

The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
Author: Noreen Giffney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317041895

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. The terms ’queer’ and ’theory’ are put under interrogation by a combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, in an effort to map the relations and disjunctions between them. These contributors are especially attendant to the many theoretical discourses intersecting with queer theory, including feminist theory, LGBT studies, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, disability studies, Marxism, poststructuralism, critical race studies and posthumanism, to name a few. This Companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of queer scholarship from the past two decades and identifies many current directions queer theorizing is taking, while also signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable and authoritative resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom.

The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature
Author: Scott Herring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316298981

This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

Queer Entanglements

Queer Entanglements
Author: Damien W. Riggs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1108488862

This book explores LGBQTNB people's relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture
Author: Emma Rees
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2022-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000627004

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture is an intersectional, diverse, and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture. The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within gender, sexuality, and cultural studies. A range of international contributors, including leaders in their field, provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters, the volume is comprised into five thematic parts: Identifying, Embodying, Making, Doing, and Resisting. Topics explored include homonormativity, poetry, video games, menstruation, fatness, disability, sex toys, sex work, BDSM, dating apps, body modifications, and politics and activism. This is an important and unique collection aimed at scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners across cultural studies, gender studies and sociology.