Publisher's Synopsis
Contributors explore the interdisciplinarity of the field and its relation to other fields, such as critical race studies, feminism, and lesbian and gay studies. Several essays recall the birth of queer theory in the days of the feminist-sex wars and the first AIDS-related gay male deaths; some contributors evoke the days of the field's infancy while others are pleased to embrace its maturity. The sheer number and breadth of the topics considered-everything from Hank Williams and the paradoxes of Native American sovereignty to the declension of atoms in the writings of Lucretius, from Henry Darger's "naive" depiction of girls with male genitals to the experience of being single or of falling asleep-reflect the continuing power of queer theory a generation after its inception.
Contributors
Lauren Berlant
Michael Cobb
Ann Cvetkovich
Lee Edelman
Richard Thompson Ford
Carla Freccero
Elizabeth Freeman
Jonathan Goldberg
Janet Halley
Neville Hoad
Joseph Litvak
Michael Moon
José Esteban Muñoz
Jeff Nunokawa
Andrew Parker
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Richard Rambuss
Erica Rand
Bethany Schneider
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Kate Thomas
