Destabilizing Gender Theory
An Introduction
$66.81
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
30 November 1992
Summary
In the 1990s, the key term used for the most recent discourses on sexuality is “queer”. Queer theory seeks to disempower its heterosexual opponents by appropriating one of their most insulting terms, just as abstract painters earlier this century reacted to ridicule of their work by calling themselves “cubists”. This theory challenges the belief that a stable relationship exists between chromosomal sex, social gender and sexual desire. This book begins with a lexicographical analysis that con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522846232 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522846238 |
| Author: | Annamarie Jagose |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 November 1992 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 139mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Interpretations |
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About The Author
Annamarie Jagose
Annamarie Jagose is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of the critical work Lesbian Utopics and the novel In Translation, which won the PEN Award for Best First Fiction in 1994.
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