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Beyond the Nation
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variet...
A Badge of Injury
A Badge of Injury is a contribution to both the fields of queer and global history. It analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. Following the journey of the Pink Triangle and its many iterations, A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narratives of pride or the construction of the historical queer subject. Beyond a success story, the book dives into some of the shortcomings of Euro-American queer history and the power of the negative, writing an emancipatory yet critical story of the era.
After The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality—a field in which the German case has been traditionally central. In many diverse ways, the Foucauldian intervention has governed the formation of questions in the field as well as the assumptions about how some of these questions should be answered. It can be argued, however, that some of these revolutionary insights have ossified into dogmas or truisms within the field. Yet, as these contributions meticulously reveal, those very truisms, when revisited with a fresh eye, can lead to new, unexpected insights into the history of sexuality, necessitating a return to and reinterpretation of Foucault's richly complex work. This volume will be necessary reading for students of historical sexuality as well as for those readers in German history and German studies generally who have an interest in the history of sexuality.
When States Come Out
Focusing on the transnational LGBT movement that has gained unprecedented momentum, this study is a timely contribution to debates both scholarly and popular.
Democratic Delusions
It is becoming common in many states: the opportunity to reclaim government from politicians by simply signing a petition to put an initiative on the ballot and then voting for it. Isn't this what America ought to be about? Proposition 13 in California's 1978 election paved the way; the past decade saw more than 450 such actions; now in many states direct legislation dominates the political agenda and defines political—and public-opinion. While this may appear to be democracy in action, Richard Ellis warns us that the initiative process may be putting democracy at risk. In Democratic Delusions he offers a critical analysis of the statewide initiative process in the United States, challengi...
Crip Theory
McRuer makes a case that queer and disabled identities, politics, and cultural logics are inexorably intertwined, and that queer and disability theory need one another. Crip theory makes clear that no cultural analysis is complete without attention to the politics of bodily ability and 'alternative corporealities'.
Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You are
While people used to conceal the fact that they were gay or lesbian to protect themselves from stigma and discrimination, it is now commonplace for people to "come out" and encourage others to do so as well. Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are systematically examines how coming out has moved beyond gay and lesbian rights groups and how different groups wrestle with the politics of coming out in their efforts to resist stigma and enact social change. It shows how different experiences and disparate risks of disclosure shape these groups' collective strategies. Through scores of interviews with LGBTQ+ people, undocumented immigrant youth, fat acceptance activists, Mormon fundamentalist polygamists, and sexual harassment lawyers and activists in the era of the #MeToo movement, Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are explains why so many different groups gravitate toward the term coming out. By focusing on the personal and political resonance of coming out, it provides a novel way to understand how identity politics work in America today.
Wie wird man heterosexuell?
In biologistischer Sichtweise werden Geschlecht und Sexualität miteinander verknüpft. Es gibt männliche und weibliche Sexualität, egal ob homo oder hetero. Ilka Quindeau stellt diese Festlegungen in einem originellen Rückgriff auf Freud in Frage. Sie entwickelt ein Konzept von Bisexualität, die nicht nur in der Richtung des Begehrens offen ist, sondern auch im eigenen Empfinden nicht auf 'männlich' oder 'weiblich' festgelegt ist. Lustempfinden und Begehren sind demnach nicht einseitig im Körper verwurzelt, sondern bilden sich als Antwort, als Reaktion auf das heraus, was ihm von außen Befriedigung bereitet.
Identity Work in Social Movements
Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants.
Queere Bündnisse und Antikriegspolitik
Welches Profil muss eine queere Politik haben, die sich als Teil einer Politik gegen den Krieg versteht? Ausgehend von dieser Leitfrage behandelt die amerikanische Philosophin Judith Butler Aspekte einer queeren Friedenspolitik, die "queer" nicht als Identitätskonzept, sondern als Bündnisform zu thematisieren sucht. Judith Butler diskutiert vor diesem Hintergrund folgende Fragen: Welche politische Rolle spielt queere Politik in einer Welt, in der Krieg alltäglich erscheint und viele Völker einem ständigen Bedrohungszustand hoffnungslos ausgeliefert sind? Wie muss sich queere Politik angesichts der globalen Herausforderungen der zunehmenden Militarisierung und fortgesetzten Kolonialisierung neu definieren und ist eine queere Politik denkbar, die nicht zugleich auch eine anti-rassistische Bewegung ist? Wie können wir Bündnissen gegen nationalistische Abschottungspolitik beitreten, wenn diejenigen, für die und mit denen wir kämpfen, unsere Standpunkte nicht immer teilen?
