Reclaiming Queer : Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance / Erin J. Rand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rand, Erin J., 1974-

Series:

Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Gay people--Political activity--United States.

Gay people.

Gay rights--United States.

Gay rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reclaiming Queer is an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s.The late 1980s and early 1990s were a defining historical moment for both queer activism and queer theory in the United States. LGBT communities, confronted with the alarming violence and homophobia of the AIDS crisis, often responded with angry, militant forms of activism designed not merely to promote acceptance or tolerance, but to forge identity and strength from victimization and assert loudly and forcefully their rights to safety and hu

Contents:

Introduction: toward the queer possibilities of rhetorical agency

Staking a claim on the queer frontier: the debut and proliferation of queer theory

An inflammatory fag we love to hate: Larry Kramer, polemicist

Visibility with a vengeance: the lesbian avengers and lesbian chic

Gay pride, queer shame: the politics of act up's affective history

Conclusion: risking resistance.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780817387518

081738751X

OCLC:

881888042

Publisher Number:

heb40440 hdl