Deviations : a Gayle Rubin reader / Gayle S. Rubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubin, Gayle.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

a John Hope Franklin Center Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay and lesbian studies.

Queer theory.

Feminist theory.

Homosexuality--Political aspects.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history.

Contents:

"The traffic in women : notes on the "Political economy" of sex" (1975)

The trouble with trafficking : afterthoughts on "The traffic in women." (2010)

"Introduction" to A woman appeared to me, by Renee Vivien. (1976)

"The leather menace" (1982)

"Thinking sex" (1984)

"Afterword to Thinking sex" (1993)

"Postscript to Thinking sex" (1993)

"Blood under the bridge : reflections on Thinking sex" (2010)

"The catacombs : a temple of the butthole" (1991)

"Of catamites and kings : reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries" (1992)

"Misguided, dangerous, and wrong : an analysis of anti-pornography politics" (1993)

Interview "Sexual traffic," with Judith Butler (1995)

"Studying sexual subcultures : the ethnography of gay communities in urban North America"

"Geologies of queer studies : it's deja vu all over again" (2004).

Notes:

"A John Hope Franklin Center Book."

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613335234

9780822394068

0822394065

9781283335232

1283335239

OCLC:

766004635