1st Edition

Thinking Queerly Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity

By David Ross Fryer Copyright 2012
116 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Queer theory and the gay rights movement historically have been in tension, with the former critiquing precisely the identity politics on which the latter relies. Yet neither queer theory, in its predominately poststructuralist form, nor the gay rights movement, with its conservative "inclusionary" aspirations, has adequately addressed questions of identity or the political struggles against... Read more
Chapter 1. On the Possibilities of Posthumanism, or How to Think Queer in an Antiblack WorldChapter 2. African American Queer StudiesChapter 3. Toward a Phenomenology of GenderChapter 4. What Levinas and Psychoanalysis Can Teach Each Other, or How to Be a Mensch without Going MeshugahChapter 5. Reading Responsibility in The Hours: Two Accounts of Subjectivity

Biography

David Ross Fryer