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Foucault and queer theory / Tamsin Spargo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spargo, Tamsin.
- Series:
- Postmodern encounters.
- Postmodern Encounters S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality.
- Postmodernism.
- Queer theory.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (75 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Icon Books, 1999.
- Cambridge, U.K. : Icon Books ; New York, N.Y. : Totem Books, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTERS series and providing a brief introduction to Foucault's compelling ideas and the development of Queer culture, this is the meeting place between the Frenchman's theories of sexuality, power and discourse and the current key exponents of Queer thinking.
- Contents:
- Sex Matters; Who is Foucault?; What is Queer Theory?; A Queer Genealogy; Sex, Truth and Discourse; Scientia Sexualis; The Construction of Homosexuality; Power and Resistance; Reactions to Foucault; Foucault +? = Queer Theory?; Identity Crisis; 'We're here, we're queer, get used to it.'; Queer(ing) Theory; Queer Foucault; Heterosexuality versus Homosexuality; Getting Personal; What Butler Saw; Queer Knowledges/Queer Performances; Queer Today and Gone Tomorrow?; Notes; Further Reading; Key Ideas.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781840465013
- 1-281-37195-5
- 9786611371951
- 1-84046-501-8
- OCLC:
- 527378858
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