Queer Theory Now From Foundations To Futures Pdf
Hilma Klingaman
February is LGBTQ+History Month in the UK, and as part of our recognition of that we asked members of the Library Student Team at Manchester University to share their thoughts on some of the relevant books in our library. They chose a varied selection of works from different sections of our collection, and we will be sharing their reviews in this blog over the next few days.
If you are looking for an introduction to learning about gender, sex, sexuality, and race, Queer Theory Now is an essential book to create foundations of understandings, especially of the intersections that are present within these identities.
Queer Theory Now reflects the holistic nature of queer theory, in which the book examines issues relating to identity and oppression, while also looking at factors influencing the nature of this marginalisation, including globalism, capitalism, as well as gendered labour through the lens of feminist political economy. Looking at the selection of resources available at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre, although interesting and extensive, it was difficult even as a Politics student to fully understand the other texts without understanding the theoretical background that underpins these revolutionary ideas. This textbook is thereby suited for teenagers and adults alike, whether for those with the hope to learn more as an ally, or for those who hope to learn more about the dynamics of the oppression faced as part of this community.
As reviewed by another member of the University of Manchester Library Student Team, The Pronoun Book offers an accessible introduction to using pronouns for both children and adults alike. Moving from an academic-heavy nature, this book provides more details surrounding non-binary and trans communities that were comparatively missed within Queer Theory Now.
15 minutes away from the Central Library, Queer Lit provides a selection of fiction books as well as other resources, if you would like to get your own copy. The store manager was helpful in recommending books, as well as answering any questions I had!
Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future uses the lens of queer ecologies to explore environmental destruction in Appalachia while mapping out alternative futures that follow from critical queer perspectives on the United States' exploitation of the land. With essays by Lis Regula, Jessica Cory, Chet Pancake, Tijah Bumgarner, MJ Eckhouse, and other essential thinkers, this collection brings to light both emergent and long-standing marginalized perspectives that give renewed energy to the struggle for a sustainable future. A new and valuable contribution to the field of Appalachian studies, rural queer studies, Indigenous studies, and ethnographic studies of the United States, Deviant Hollers presents a much-needed objection to the status quo of academic work, as well as to the American exceptionalism and white supremacy pervading US politics and the broader geopolitical climate. By focusing on queer critiques and acknowledging the status of Appalachia as a settler colony, Deviant Hollers offers new possibilities for a reimagined way of life.
Foreword, by Stephanie Foote
Introduction, by Rebecca Scott and Zane McNeill
1. Re-presenting the Narrative: Pursuing Stories Amidst Addiction, by Tijah Bumgarner
2. Intoxicated Subjects: Queer Bodies and Ecologies in 'Trumpalachia', by Rebecca-Eli M. Long and Zane McNeill
3. Queers Embracing Place in Appalachia: The Importance of Masculinities for Queer Acceptance, by Baker A. Rogers
4. Unsilencing Indigeneity: Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Ecologies, and the Continuation of Settler Colonialism, by Jessica Cory
5. It's Grandpa's Land: Settler Property, Heteropatriarchy and Environmental Disasters, by Kandice Grossman, Aaron Padgett, and Rebecca Scott
6. Edible Kent: Collaboration, Decentralization, and Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Food Systems, by Lis Regula and MJ Eckhouse
7. Arboreal Blockaders: "Queer/Trans Moments of Critical Appalachian Eco-Action", by Chet Pancake
8. Masculinities in the Decline of Coal: Queer Futures in the Appalachian Coalfields, by Gabe Schwartzmann
9. "I Fixed Up the Trees to Give Them Some New Life:": Queer Desire, Affect, and Ecology in the Work of LGBTQ+ Appalachian Artists, by Maxwell Cloe
Contributor Biographies
Zane McNeill is an independent scholar-activist from West Virginia who has published edited collections with PM Press, Routledge, and Lantern Publishing & Media. Rebecca R. Scott is associate professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, where she teaches classes on environmental justice, gender, and social theory. She is the author of Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity from the Appalachian Coalfields.
"A rich collection of work that delightfully confounds typical narratives of what it means to be from, and live in, Appalachia by offering future possibilities for queer belonging, environmental justice, and liberation."
"An expansive and evocative rethinking of Appalachian studies. Beyond challenging metronormative narratives of queer urban-ness or presenting Appalachian cultures and geographies as queered with regard to US national norms, the collection addresses how those dynamics are themselves enmeshed within ongoing histories of settler colonialism in which non-Indigenous Appalachians participate."
"Pushing against narratives of the region that include only white, patriarchal, and heteronormative characterizations, the authors collected in Deviant Hollers hope to open up new spaces of possibility for Appalachia's future.... With its candor and nuance, Deviant Hollers makes a valuable addition to a growing body of literature that insists upon a thorough course correction to reductive regional stereotypes."
This guide will not contain all of the key figures/texts in the field but we hope that it can serve as a jumping-off point for future research whether you are a seasoned academic or completely new to the field.
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Includes access to five modules: LGBTQ History Since 1940, part 1; LGBTQ History Since 1940, part 2; Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture; and L'Enfer de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France Digital Archive.
Gender Studies Database provides indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship. It offers over a million records from scholarly and popular publications, including journals, books, conference papers and theses.
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The LGBTQ+ Library Catalog contains materials pertaining to asexual, bisexual, gay, intersex, lesbian, transgender, and queer issues. These resources include books, videos, CDs, and periodicals. This collection is intended to be a resource for both research and entertainment.
Each document exhibit includes 20-40 primary source documents; whenever possible, they are available in both transcribed (searchable) and original form. Every exhibit also includes a critical introductory essay that helps explain the significance of the primary sources in historical terms and in relationship to previous scholarship.
Explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors throughout the twentieth century. Produced in collaboration with the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, the resource includes the work of leading American sexologists, sex researchers, and organizations.
Users will be prompted to confirm that they are over the age of consent to access this resource. Please be aware that this resource contains material of a sexually explicit nature. Content includes, but is not limited to, descriptions and imagery of sexual violence; non-consensual sexual activity; sexual activity including minors; surgery and suicide.
Includes research papers and records spanning the tenures of the first three Institute directors; Dr Alfred C. Kinsey (1947-1956), Dr Paul H. Gebhard (1956-1982) and Dr June Reinisch (1982-1993).
Henry D. Abelove is an American historian and literary critic whose writing focuses on the history of sex in the modern era. He is best known for his books The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists (1990) and Deep Gossip (2003). He co-edited The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993) which provided the fields of lesbian, gay, and queer studies with first teaching anthology. Abelove spent most of his teaching career as a professor at Wesleyan University.
Sara Ahmed is a scholar best known for her work in feminist theory, affect theory, lesbian feminism, critical race theory, postcolonial studies, and queer theory. Her book, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004) is a foundational text of affect theory. Ahmed currently works as an independent scholar.
Judith Butler is an American philosopher whose work has been extremely influential in the fields of feminism, political philosophy, queer theory, and literary theory. Butler is best known for developing the theory of gender performativity. They are a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Lee Edelman is an American literary critic and academic. His third book, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004) is a post-Lacanian analysis of queer theory and is widely cited and debated. Edelman is a professor at Tufts University.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher who is considered to be one of the founders of queer theory. His work, particularly The History of Sexuality (1976), a four-volume work on the history of sexuality in the Western world, influenced many feminist philosophers and queer theorists including Judith Butler.
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