Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories

by Shane Phelan (Editor)

Overview

The last five years have witnessed the birth of a vibrant new group of young scholars who are writing about queer law, politics, and policy--topics which are no longer treated as of interest only to lesbians and gay men, but which now garner the attention of political theorists of all stripes. Playing With Fire--the first scholarly collection on queer politics by US political theorists--opens the intersection of lesbian and gay studies and political theory to a wide audience. It covers a wide range of issues, including: the theory of queer identities; the contrasts among ethnic, racial, and sexual identities; the debate between liberals and communitarians; the right to privacy; and the meaning of equal citizenship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415914178
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/14/1997
Series:	Thinking Gender
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shane Phelan is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Table of Contents

Introduction/Shane Phelan — Critically queer/Judith Butler — True or false: the self in radical lesbian feminist theory/Cynthia Burack — Dichotomies and displacement: bisexuality in queer theory and politics/Stacey Young — Lesbians and mestizas: appropriation and equivalence/Shane Phelan — Somewhere over the rainbow: queer translating/Angelia R. Wilson — The centering of right-wing extremism through the construction of an "inclusionary" homophobia and racism/Anna Marie Smith — Community, rights talk, and the communitarian dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick/Gordon A. Babst — Essentialism and the political articulation of identity/Gary Lehring — Intimacy and equality: the question of lesbian and gay marriage/Morris B. Kaplan — Politics, practices, publics: identity and queer rights/Paisley Currah — Queer problems, straight solutions: the limits of a politics of "official recognition"/Lisa Bower.