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In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear—and those that do not—as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl’s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts—by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon—with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions. https://www.saranahmed.com/
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Le présent article trace d’abord un bref portrait de trois conceptions dominantes de l’identité sexuelle : le modèle patriarcal, le modèle féministe et le modèle postmoderne. Puis, après avoir présenté plus longuement le dernier, il analyse deux romans relayant cette conception postmoderne de l’identité de sexe/genre, l’un écrit par un homme (Self, de Yann Martel, paru en 1996), et l’autre par une femme (Ce qu’il en reste, de Julie Hivon, paru en 1999). Dans ces deux romans, qui revêtent de ce fait une importante dimension politique, les identités figées sont mises à mal tant discursivement que formellement - par la déconstruction des signes du passé et la mise en place de dispositifs énonciatifs confondant hommes et femmes, par exemple. Ils participent ainsi à une conception culturaliste de l’identité sexuelle, selon laquelle le genre est une performance.,This article begins by briefly introducing three major frameworks for conceptualizing gender identity : a patriarchal model, a feminist model and a postmodern model. After exploring the third in greater depth, it offers a reading of two novels of postmodern gender identity, one by a male author (Self by Yann Martel, 1996), one by a female author (Ce qu’il en reste by Julie Hivon, 1999). Both novels, which are therefore strongly political, challenge the concept of predetermined gender identity on the levels both of discourse and of form, by deconstructing older concepts and by blurring gender lines. They are therefore grounded in a view of gender identity as cultural construction and performance.
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Publié pour la première fois en 2001, ce livre pionnier a permis l'ouverture d'un espace théorique et politique queer en France. Il s'agit d'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. Cette nouvelle édition comprend trois essais inédits sur le " devenir femme " de Deleuze, l'utopie sexuelle urbaine de Gayle Rubin et la post-pornographie selon Annie Sprinkle.
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The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of Dance, Education, Film, Health, Homophobia, the Internet, Literature, Music, Performance, and Politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a wide array of backgrounds: scholars, journalists, artists, doctors, scientists, lawyers, activists, and an enormous range of ideologies and points of view are represented. Major entries provide in-depth information and consider the intellectual and cultural implications of their subjects in a global context. Information is completely up-to-date, including full coverage and analysis of such current or ongoing issues as same-sex marriage/civil union and the international AIDS epidemic. Additionally, there are important appendices covering international sodomy laws and archival institutions, which will be of great value to researchers. The Encyclopedia is fully cross-referenced and many entries carry a bibliography. Where possible internet references have been given and there is a full index.The combination of its wide scope, determined international coverage and appendices make the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture a uniquely ambitious work and an extremely rich source of information. It is a priority addition for all libraries serving scholars and students with an interest in GLBTQ culture, history and politics across the disciplines.
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In her paper, "A Bakhtinian Perspective on Feminist Lesbian Crime Writing," Sarah Posman discusses how the Bakhtinian concepts "ethos" and "chronotope" add to the discussion of feminist lesbian crime writing. She sets out from a Bakhtinian typology of action stories and situates recent crime writing as a curious mixture of mission stories and transformation stories. Focusing on the innovative potential of feminist lesbian crime writing, Posman explores how such stories tackle the iconically masculine and heterosexual conventions of the detective story and manage to balance tradition and subversion successfully. Posman infuses her analysis with issues central to feminism and queer theory and considers how a feminist lesbian detective hero can "change the world," that is, how such an "other" ethos impinges on crime writing's conventional chronotopical constellation. The hero and world under discussion are those of the popular Kate Delafield series by Katherine V. Forrest.
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Although the term "transgender" itself has achieved familiarity only within the past decade, this authoritative collection of articles demonstrates that the study of behaviors, bodies, and subjective identities which contest common Eurocentric notions of gender has a history stretching back at least to the early 20th century. Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists, and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.