A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
1. Edition August 2007
496 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-4051-1329-8
John Wiley & Sons
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
List of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
Molly McGarry and George E. Haggerty
PART I QUEER POLITICS IN THE TIME OF WAR AND SHOPPING OR WHY
SEX? WHY NOW? 15
1 Sex, Secularism, and the "War on Terrorism": The
Role of Sexuality in Multi- Issue Organizing 17
Janet R. Jakobsen
2 Freedom and the Racialization of Intimacy: Lawrence v. Texas
and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 38
David L. Eng
3 "No Atheists in the Fox Hole": Toward a Radical
Queer Politics in a Post- 9/11 World 60
Sharon P. Holland
4 Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping 77
Martin F. Manalansan IV
5 Who Needs Civil Liberties? 87
Richard Meyer
PART II HISTORIES, GENEALOGIES, AND FUTURITIES 107
6 The Relevance of Race for the Study of Sexuality 109
Roderick A. Ferguson
7 The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography 124
Valerie Traub
8 Deviant Teaching 146
David M. Halperin
9 After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp 168
Ann Pellegrini
10 Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past 194
Carla Freccero
PART III DESIRE FOR GENDER 215
11 The Desire for Gender 217
Robyn Wiegman
12 Methodologies of Trans Resistance 237
Dean Spade
13 The History of Aphallia and the Intersexual Challenge to
Sex/Gender 262
Vernon A. Rosario
14 Gesture and Utterance: Fragments from a Butch-Femme
Archive 282
Juana María Rodríguez
PART IV QUEER BELONGINGS 293
15 Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory 295
Elizabeth Freeman
16 Forgetting Family: Queer Alternatives to Oedipal Relations
315
Judith Halberstam
17 Between Friends 325
Jennifer Doyle
18 Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Sancharram 341
Gayatri Gopinath
19 The Light That Never Goes Out: Butch Intimacies and Sub-
Urban Sociabilities in "Lesser Los Angeles" 355
Karen Tongson
PART V PERFORMING THEORY OR THEORY IN MEDIAS RES 377
20 "Serious Innovation": An Interview with Judith
Butler 379
Jordana Rosenberg
21 Materiality, Pedagogy, and the Limits of Queer Visibility
389
Amy Villarejo
22 Melos, Telos, and Me: Transpositions of Identity in the Rock
Musical 404
James Tobias
23 Promising Complicities: On the Sex, Race, and Globalization
Project 430
Miranda Joseph and David Rubin
24 Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay
Pragmatism 452
José Esteban Muñoz
Index 465
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
Molly McGarry and George E. Haggerty
PART I QUEER POLITICS IN THE TIME OF WAR AND SHOPPING OR WHY
SEX? WHY NOW? 15
1 Sex, Secularism, and the "War on Terrorism": The
Role of Sexuality in Multi- Issue Organizing 17
Janet R. Jakobsen
2 Freedom and the Racialization of Intimacy: Lawrence v. Texas
and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 38
David L. Eng
3 "No Atheists in the Fox Hole": Toward a Radical
Queer Politics in a Post- 9/11 World 60
Sharon P. Holland
4 Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping 77
Martin F. Manalansan IV
5 Who Needs Civil Liberties? 87
Richard Meyer
PART II HISTORIES, GENEALOGIES, AND FUTURITIES 107
6 The Relevance of Race for the Study of Sexuality 109
Roderick A. Ferguson
7 The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography 124
Valerie Traub
8 Deviant Teaching 146
David M. Halperin
9 After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp 168
Ann Pellegrini
10 Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past 194
Carla Freccero
PART III DESIRE FOR GENDER 215
11 The Desire for Gender 217
Robyn Wiegman
12 Methodologies of Trans Resistance 237
Dean Spade
13 The History of Aphallia and the Intersexual Challenge to
Sex/Gender 262
Vernon A. Rosario
14 Gesture and Utterance: Fragments from a Butch-Femme
Archive 282
Juana María Rodríguez
PART IV QUEER BELONGINGS 293
15 Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory 295
Elizabeth Freeman
16 Forgetting Family: Queer Alternatives to Oedipal Relations
315
Judith Halberstam
17 Between Friends 325
Jennifer Doyle
18 Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Sancharram 341
Gayatri Gopinath
19 The Light That Never Goes Out: Butch Intimacies and Sub-
Urban Sociabilities in "Lesser Los Angeles" 355
Karen Tongson
PART V PERFORMING THEORY OR THEORY IN MEDIAS RES 377
20 "Serious Innovation": An Interview with Judith
Butler 379
Jordana Rosenberg
21 Materiality, Pedagogy, and the Limits of Queer Visibility
389
Amy Villarejo
22 Melos, Telos, and Me: Transpositions of Identity in the Rock
Musical 404
James Tobias
23 Promising Complicities: On the Sex, Race, and Globalization
Project 430
Miranda Joseph and David Rubin
24 Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay
Pragmatism 452
José Esteban Muñoz
Index 465
"The Companion's focus on sexuality is of universal relevance and merits serious attention in all academic courses at university level. Recommended with sincere respect." (Reference Reviews, Issue 8 2008)
"Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Gay and Lesbian Studies,
African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's and Gender
Studies, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies,
Transgender Studies, Queer Theory - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender and Queer Studies. This anthology collects new work by
people who have helped keep identity-inflected
"Studies" from settling down. And across its broad
scope, it argues for the continuing centrality of sexuality. Its
appearance is a big moment: don't miss it."
-Janet Halley, Harvard Law School
"Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Gay and Lesbian Studies,
African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's and Gender
Studies, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies,
Transgender Studies, Queer Theory - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender and Queer Studies. This anthology collects new work by
people who have helped keep identity-inflected
"Studies" from settling down. And across its broad
scope, it argues for the continuing centrality of sexuality. Its
appearance is a big moment: don't miss it."
-Janet Halley, Harvard Law School
George E. Haggerty is Professor of English at the University
of California, Riverside. His books include Gothic
Fiction/Gothic Form (1989), Unnatural Affections: Women and
Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century (1998) and Men In
Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century
(1999). He has also edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and
Gay Studies in Literature (1995) and Gay Histories and
Cultures: An Encyclopedia (2000). His latest book is Queer
Gothic (2006).
Molly McGarry is Assistant Professor of History at the
University of California, Riverside. She is co-author (with Fred
Wasserman) of Becoming Visible and author of Ghosts of Futures
Past (2007).
of California, Riverside. His books include Gothic
Fiction/Gothic Form (1989), Unnatural Affections: Women and
Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century (1998) and Men In
Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century
(1999). He has also edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and
Gay Studies in Literature (1995) and Gay Histories and
Cultures: An Encyclopedia (2000). His latest book is Queer
Gothic (2006).
Molly McGarry is Assistant Professor of History at the
University of California, Riverside. She is co-author (with Fred
Wasserman) of Becoming Visible and author of Ghosts of Futures
Past (2007).
