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Queer ecologies : sex, nature, politics, desire / edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Queer theory.
- Sex.
- Human ecology.
- sexuality.
- human ecology.
- Theories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 410 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome.
- Edition:
- First edition
- Other Title:
- Sex, nature, politics, desire
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- As a whole, Queer Ecologies stands as a powerful corrective to views that equate "natural" with "straight" while "queer" is held to be against nature.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a genealogy of queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson
- Eluding capture: the science, culture, and pleasure of "queer" animals / Stacy Alaimo
- Enemy of the species / Ladelle McWhorter
- Penguin family values: the nature of planetary environmental reproductive justice / Noel Sturgeon
- Queernaturecultures / David Bell
- Non-white reproduction and same-sex eroticism: queer acts against nature / Andil Gosine
- From jook joints to sisterspace: the role of nature in lesbian alternative environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger
- Polluted politics? Confronting toxic discourse, sex panic, and eco-normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro
- Undoing nature: coalition building as queer environmentalism / Katie Hogan
- Fragments, edges, and matrices: retheorizing the formation of a so-called gay ghetto through queering landscape ecology / Gordon Brent Ingram
- "The place, promised, that has not yet been": the nature of dislocation and desire in Adrienne Rich's Your native land/your life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against nature / Rachel Stein
- "fucking close to water": queering the production of the nation / Bruce Erickson
- Melancholy natures, queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
- Biophilia, creative involution, and the ecological future of queer desire / Dianne Chisholm.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-97570-6
- 9786612975707
- 0-253-00474-8
- OCLC:
- 670429594
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