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The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender

The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender

Berger, Anne Emmanuelle
Porter, Catherine

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Series: Commonalities

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0823253864
ISBN13: 9780823253869
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Dec 2 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both American and French, thus simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, she tries to account for their alleged exhaustion and currency on the two sides of the Atlantic.

The book is divided into four parts. In the first, the author examines two specifically American features of gender theories since their earliest formulations: on the one hand, an emphasis on the theatricality of gender (from John Money's early characterization of gender as role playing to Judith Butler's appropriation of Esther Newton's work on drag queens); on the other, the early adoption of a queer perspective on gender issues.

In the second part, the author reflects on a shift in the rhetoric concerning sexual minorities and politics that is

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