An essential text documenting the foundation and rise of queer theory.
Founded in 1992, the David R. Kessler lectures represent the foreground of queer studies in the US, featuring legendary thinkers such as Cherríe Moraga, Samuel R. Delany, Dean Spade, Sara Ahmed, and more. This canonical volume brings together the first ten lectures and explores questions of sexuality and gender, as well as how new—and queer—ideas are thought into being.
Queer Ideas features interdisciplinary scholarship from the field’s founding thinkers: Edmund White on literature and criticism, Barbara Smith on Black lesbian and gay history, Esther Newton on being butch, Samuel R. Delany on class and capitalism, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on love, Judith Butler on human rights, and more. This new edition remains a testimony to queer studies as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century, and provides a necessary introduction for a new generation of feminist scholars, thinkers, and activists.
Table of Content
Foreword by Martin Duberman
Introduction by Alisa Solomon and Paisley Currah
1992, Joan Nestle – “I Lift My Face to the Hill”: The Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman
1993, Edmund White – The Personal Is Political: Queer Fiction and Criticism
1994, Barbara Smith – African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration
1995, Monique Wittig – Reading and Comments: Virgile, Non/Across the Acheron
1996, Esther Newton – My Butch Career: A Memoir
1997, Samuel R. Delany – …3, 2, 1, Contact
1998, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – A Dialogue on Love
1999, John D’Emilio – A Biographer and His Subject: Wrestling with Bayard Rustin
2000, Cherríe Moraga – A Xicanadyke Codex of Changing Consciousness
2001, Judith Butler – Global Violence, Sexual Politics
About the author
The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS), located at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, was founded in 1991 and is the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals and communities.Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, where they have taught in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature. They are the author of several books, which have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages, and the recipient of thirteen honorary degrees. Butler is active in several human rights organizations, having served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and presently on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. They were the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities (2009-13), were elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2018, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. In 2020, they served as President of the Modern Language Association. They are presently teaching as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the New School University.
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