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Publié en trois volumes (2001, 2005 et 2011), ce livre pionnier a permis l’ouverture d’un espace théorique et politique queer en France. Il propose une boîte à outils destinée aux activistes en quête de cultures et de politiques sexuelles qui ne soient pas (homo ou hétéro) normatives.Stimulants et provocants, les textes réunis dans ce recueil constituent également une introduction critique à la déconstruction des genres et aux travaux de Judith Butler et de Michel Foucault. Ils mettent de plus en évidence l’apport des subcultures trans, butch et SM à une réflexion plus large sur les relations entre pouvoir et savoir, ainsi que le formidable potentiel des sexualités dissidentes et la continuité politique entre féminisme pro-sexe et activisme queer.Ce recueil mis à jour regroupe ainsi en un seul livre les articles des trois volumes, épuisés dans leurs différentes éditions mais faisant l’objet d’un intérêt constant. Il s’agit ainsi de remettre à disposition des lecteurs un outil politique et théorique désormais « classique » des queer studies francophones.
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Une nouvelle histoire du roman queer montre son rôle dans la construction des vies gays et lesbiennes Contestant l’idée selon laquelle le roman gay et lesbien est apparu en réponse à l’émergence de l’homosexualité en tant que concept, Natasha Hurley postule une histoire beaucoup plus longue de ce genre romanesque. Elle révise notre compréhension de l’histoire de la sexualité, ainsi que des processus de production de nouveaux concepts et de l’évolution de nouvelles catégories de langage.
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During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she “became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders,” and that her “child body was a strong and capable instrument stuffed into the word ‘girl.’” Later, in early adulthood, as she was on her way to becoming a trailblazing figure in gay and lesbian studies, she “had already chosen higher education over the strongest passion in my life, my love for women, because the two seemed incompatible.” In My Butch Career Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her identity during a particularly intense time of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century. Newton recounts a series of traumas and conflicts, from being molested as a child to her failed attempts to live a “normal,” straight life in high school and college. She discusses being denied tenure at Queens College—despite having written the foundational Mother Camp—and nearly again so at SUNY Purchase. With humor and grace, she describes the influence her father Saul's strong masculinity had on her, her introduction to middle-class gay life, and her love affairs—including one with a well-known abstract painter and another with a French academic she met on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Mexico and with whom she traveled throughout France and Switzerland. By age forty, where Newton's narrative ends, she began to achieve personal and scholarly stability in the company of the first politicized generation of out lesbian and gay scholars with whom she helped create gender and sexuality studies. Affecting and immediate, My Butch Career is a story of a gender outlaw in the making, an invaluable account of a beloved and influential figure in LGBT history, and a powerful reminder of just how recently it has been possible to be an openly queer academic.