A Genealogy of Queer TheoryWho 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. |
Contents
The Proliferation of Queers | 1 |
Foucault Didnt Know What He Was Doing and Neither Do I | 36 |
I Am the Very Model of the Modern Homosexual Gay Male Historians and the History of Sexuality | 62 |
Gender Difference Feminist Scholars on the Truth of Gender and Sexuality | 83 |
Shrinking History Queer Theory Psychoanalysis and Genealogy | 106 |
A Georgia Sodomite in King Henrys Court The Rhetorical History of Homosexuality in Law and Politics | 139 |
On the Cost of Telling the Truth | 172 |
Notes | 201 |
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