Browsing by Subject "Queer Theory"
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"Are You Gay?": A Queer Ethnography of Sex and Sexuality in Cairo
(2014-10-17)Focusing specifically in urban cosmopolitan Cairo during the aftermath of the alleged January 25th Revolution, this ethnographic project is an invitation to a deeper exploration of sex and sexuality in the Middle East. During ... -
Gender Relations in Chinese Comrade Literature: Redefining Heterosexual and Homosexual Identity as Essentially the Same yet Radically Different
(2012-08-20)Throughout the twentieth century, homosexuality has been and remains a highly sensitive and controversial topic in China where homosexual people were actively persecuted under Communist rule. It was not until the advent ... -
Inventing "French Feminism:" A Critical History
(2016)French Feminism has little to do with feminism in France. While in the U.S. this now canonical body of work designates almost exclusively the work of three theorists—Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva—in France, ... -
Pornographesis: Sex, Media and Gay Culture
(2018)How does gay pornography inscribe gay identity, and what might that inscription reveal? Pornographesis asks how gay pornography has come to organize the feelings, desires, pleasures, memories, attachments, and identifications ... -
War Worlds: Violence, Sociality, and the Forms of Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Literature
(2016)“War Worlds” reads twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature to examine the social practices of marginal groups (pacifists, strangers, traitors, anticolonial rebels, queer soldiers) during the world wars. This ...