The Queer Turn in Feminism Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender |
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| Author:
| Berger, Anne Emmanuelle |
| Translator:
| Porter, Catherine |
| Series title: | Commonalities Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-5386-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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At a time when gender and queer theories appear to its American proponents to have exhausted themselves, they are hailed in France as something "new". Yet, more than any area of late 20th-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. A Franco-American scholar, the author uses this particular temporal and intellectual juncture to look again at a certain history and theory of "gender" and "sexuality."
At a time when gender and queer theories appear to its American proponents to have exhausted themselves, they are hailed in France as something "new". Yet, more than any area of late 20th-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. A Franco-American scholar, the author uses this particular temporal and intellectual juncture to look again at a certain history and theory of "gender" and "sexuality."