Queer Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader

   Edited by Donald Hall, Annamarie Jagose

   Series: Routledge Literature Readers

   The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent...

   Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics and Poetics of Camp

   Edited by Morris Meyer

   The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the meaning and discourse of camp. The contributors look at both the meaning and the uses of camp performance, and ask: is camp a style, or a witty but nonetheless powerful cultural critique? The essays investigate camp from its early...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
3. Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature

   By Tison Pugh

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines distinguished classics of children’s literature both old and new—including L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
4. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

   By Jason Edwards

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards: introduces and explains key terms such as affects, the first person, homosocialities, and queer...

   Published August 26th 2008 by Routledge
5. Gender Trouble

   Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

   By Judith Butler

   Series: Routledge Classics

   One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning...

   Published May 11th 2006 by Routledge
6. Cultural Politics – Queer Reading

   2nd Edition

   By Alan Sinfield

   Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics – Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the book's...

   Published April 24th 2005 by Routledge
7. Making a Difference

   Edited by Gayle Green, Coppélia Kahn

   Published October 16th 2002 by Routledge
8. Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

   By Jonathan Dollimore

   Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize...

   Published August 7th 2001 by Routledge
9. Premodern Sexualities

   Edited by Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero

   Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical...

   Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
10. Ventriloquized Voices

    Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts

    By Elizabeth D. Harvey

    Patronage, medicine, madness and eroticism. Harvey explores the discourse of power and sexuality in a fascinating range of early modern texts, and examines the use of the feminine voice by male authors....

    Published June 7th 1995 by Routledge