Authors: Shane Phelan
ISBN-13: 9780415914178, ISBN-10: 0415914175
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: February 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Contributors: Gordon Babst, Lisa Bower, Cynthia Burack, Judith Butler, Paisley Currah, Morris Kaplan, Gary Lehring, Shane Phelan, Anne Marie Smith, Angelia Wilson, and Stacey Young.
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Critically Queer | 11 |
2 | True or False: The Self in Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory | 31 |
3 | Dichotomies and Displacement: Bisexuality in Queer Theory and Politics | 51 |
4 | Lesbians and Mestizas: Appropriation and Equivalence | 75 |
5 | Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Queer Translating | 99 |
6 | The Centering of Right-Wing Extremism Through the Construction of an "Inclusionary" Homophobia and Racism | 113 |
7 | Community, Rights Talk, and the Communitarian Dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick | 139 |
8 | Essentialism and the Political Articulation of Identity | 173 |
9 | Intimacy and Equality: The Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage | 201 |
10 | Politics, Practices, Publics: Identity and Queer Rights | 231 |
11 | Queer Problems/Straight Solutions: The Limits of a Politics of "Official Recognition" | 267 |