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Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

Rand, Erin J.

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Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique

General ReferenceGLBTQIA Studies

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ISBN10: 0817361634
ISBN13: 9780817361631
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Apr 15 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.09 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

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. LGBTQ communities, confronted with the fatal indifference 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 humanity. The activist reclamation of the word queer is one marker of this shift in ideology and practice, and it was mirrored in academic circles by the concurrent emergence of the new field of queer theory. That is, as queer activists were mobilizing in the streets, queer theorists were producing a similar foment in the halls and publications of academia, questioning regulatory categories of gender and sexuality, and attempting to illuminate the heteronormative foundations of Western thought. Notably, the narrative of queer theory's development often describes it as arising from or being inspired by queer activism.

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