Queer: A Graphic History

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Contents
How to Introduce Queer Theory
Who are You?
Making Things Perfectly Queer
Where We’re Headed
What is “Queer”?
“Queer” Meaning Strange
“Queer” as Hate Speech
Reclaiming “Queer”
Queer Umbrella?
Queerer Umbrella?
Queering Queer
Multiple Meanings of Queer
Queer Interventions
What Queer has in Common: Anti-identity Politics
How We Came to Think this Way about Sex: A (Very) Potted History
Understandings are Always Contextual
The Early Sexologists
Open and Closed Doors: Early Sexological Understandings
Freud
Open and Closed Doors: Freud’s Theories
Masters and Johnson and Sex Therapy
Open and Closed Doors: Early Sex Therapy
Gay Rights Movement
Open and Closed Doors: Early Gay Rights Movements
How We Think about Sex
Key Assumption 1: Identities are Fixed and Essential
Key Assumption 2: Sexuality and Gender are Binary
Key Assumption 3: Normal and Abnormal Sex Can Usefully be Distinguished
Enter Queer Theory
Precursors to Queer Theory
The Existentialists
Sartre’s Homosexual
De Beauvoir
Becoming
Kinsey: Sexual Diversity
Kinsey: Categories are an Invention
Kinsey’s Legacy
Simon and Gagnon’s Sexual Scripts
Bem’s Androgyny
Black Feminists
Multiple Identities and Marginalization
Rich’s Compulsory Heterosexuality
(De)Constructing Compulsory Heterosexuality
Wittig’s Straight Mind
Crenshaw’s Intersectionality
Rubin’s Thinking Sex
The Sex Hierarchy
The Domino Theory
Gay Rights/Queer Activism
After Stonewall
Hiv/Aids and Activism
Queer Agendas
The Turn to Post-structuralism
Post -structuralism 101
Occupying Our Identity
Subjectivity
Queer Theory is Born
De Lauretis
Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Key Features
Foucault and Butler
Michel Foucault
The Panopticon
Self-monitoring Society
Neoliberal Consumer Capitalism
Power
Bodies and Normality
Docile - and Insecure - Bodies
Discourses and Technologies of the Self
Power Relations
Judith Butler
The Category of Woman
What Butler Saw
The Assumptions of Identity Politics
The Heterosexual Matrix
Challenging the Heterosexual Matrix
Gender Performativity
Doing Gender
Gender Trouble
Foucault and Butler Recap
Foucauldian-butlerian Resistance
Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity, Homophobia, and Heterosexism
...Oh My!
Straight Privilege
Problems with Privilege
Other Normativities
Interrogating Heteronormativity
Inside/Out
Coming Out
Sedgwick: How to Bring Your Kids up Gay
The Epistemology of the Closet
Nature/Nurture
Assumed Norms
Queer Beyond Sexuality and Gender
Queer Engagements
Focus on Texts
Discourse Analysis
Playing with Language
Queering
Queer Moments
Camp
Halberstam and Low Theory
“Dude, Where’s My Gender?”
Collectivism in Finding Nemo
Queer Art
Guerrilla Tactics
Queer Biology
Nature/Nurture
The Heteronormative Gaze of Science
Evolution’s Rainbow and Biological Exuberance
Sexing the Body
Delusions of Gender
Biopsychosocial
Sexual Configurations
Critical Sexology
Features of Critical Sexology
Thinking from the Margins
Kink
Open Non-monogamy
Queering Sexual Medicine
Queering Sex Therapy
Criticisms and Tensions
Why Should Race be Central to Queer Theory?
Interrogating Race
Responses to This Marginalization of Race
White Minority-world Focus
Southern Theory
Queer Goes Global
Strategic Essentialism
A Place for Identity Politics after All?
Queer and Bisexuality
Erasing Bisexuality
Queer and Feminism
Queer Feminism?
Queer Masculinity
Queer and Trans: The Terf Wars
Butler on Trans
Co-opting Trans Experience?
Trans Studies
Genderqueer
Cisgenderism
Materiality Matters
Lived Experiences
Inaccessible?
Ineffective?
Driven by Fashion?
Good Queers and Bad Not-Queers
W(h)ither Queer Theory?
The Trouble with Normal
The Crab Bucket
New Normativities
Polynormativity and Kinknormativity
It Ain’t What You Do, It’s the Way that You Do It.
Another Funny Turn
No Future
Queer Feelings
Affective and Temporality Turns
Queer Subjectivity
Queer Beyond Queer
One Step Beyond
Post-Queer?
Queer Communities
Queering Communities
Queer Ways Through the Double Binds?
Thinking Queerly
Thinking (Completely) Queerly
Resources
Acknowledgements
Biographies