Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations

by Martin Meeker

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Author: Martin Meeker

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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ISBN 10: 0299160947
ISBN 13: 978-0299160944

In the first collection of its kind, twenty-three scholars, artists, and critics forecast the impact of queer theory on the future of sexuality. Arguing that queer theory is poised to transform society’s perception of gender itself, this thoroughly interdisciplinary anthology locates itself at the forefront of various debates both inside and outside the academy.
From the history of gay and lesbian studies to the emergence of video bars, from an interview with playwright Cherrie Moraga to a photo record of 1950s gay Los Angeles, these original essays tackle the past, present, and future of queer sexuality from all directions. Queer Frontiers brings together the most vital and energetic voices around; whether promising young scholar or veteran of gay activism, each contributor is helping to move the debate into uncharted territory.

From Library Journal

Most of the material included in this provocative anthology was first presented at a conference at the University of Southern California in March 1995. The 17 wide-ranging essays are by an impressively eclectic accumulation of authors, artists, activists, and/or academics, including such veterans as Sue-Ellen Case, John Rechy, George Chauncey, and Cherrie Moraga. This important collection is meant "to signify those horizons of possibility, as yet incompletely demarcated and thus subject to revision and experimentation, that lie ahead, in a social and political environment whose power to oppress gay men, lesbians, and other sexual dissidents nonetheless still remains enormous and maddeningly depressing." This valuable volume, marking the border between the evolution of queer theory and an anticipation of its uncharted future, is recommended for all sexuality collections as well as large academic and public libraries.DJames E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P.L.
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“An eloquent and convincingly articulated anthology. The relavance of its contribution cannot be overstated.”—Suzanne Chávez-Silverman, Pomona College

“Suggests the expansive—and explosive—significance of queer theory both inside and outside of the academy.”—Bruce Burgett, University of Wisconsin–Madison

“In their sophisticated attention not only to sexuality but also to bodies, genders, identities, and the social spaces that structure how desire plays itself out, this host of fresh voices from the queer frontier provides an encouraging preview of the shape of queer studies in the decade ahead.”—Susan Stryker, Stanford University

“This wide-ranging anthology takes us unexpected places and makes provocative connections. Queer Frontiers is a stimulating and lively contribution to the ongoing cultural debates.”—Neil Miller, author of Out in the World and In Search of Gay America

About the Author

Joseph A. Boone is professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Criticism, Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism, and co-editor of Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism.

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