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Sto caricando le informazioni... Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexualitydi Calvin Thomas
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This engaging collection poses the question, Can straight people think queer? Straight with a Twist offers a refreshing look at the relation between queer theory and critical examinations of the construction of heterosexuality. Seeking to proliferate the findings and insights of queer theory, contributors explore the issue of whether and how queer theory can speak for and include the straight. In some of the ways that men have learned from feminism to interrogate the construction of masculinity, straights are learning from queer theory to interrogate constructions of straightness, to question their place in those constructions, and to make critical interventions into the institutional reproduction of the heterosexual norm. Straight with a Twist responds to the formulations of some of the leading figures in queer theory, considers demonstrations of the queer in television programs ("Seinfeld," for example) and contemporary films, and explores to what extent and in what ways literary texts from Shakespeare to Dorothy Allison are open to queer interpretation. Committed to antihomophobic cultural analysis, Straight with a Twist aims to extend the reach of queer theory and humanize the world by making it "queerer than ever." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The first chapter could be used as an introduction text for straights in the GLBTQ studies classroom, the fourth could be used by writing teachers to better interrogate how they teach critical thinking skills. The Afterword could benefit anyone with any interest in feminism, gay rights or gay politics, lesbian rights or lesbian politics, or the politics of personal choice or even child raising; it's a conversation between two people, and very clear about the intersectionality of all of these.
As for the rest of the book... meh. Not really worth reading or assigning. I was hoping for theory and I just got a bunch of varyingly interesting and varyingly pompous queer readings of unimportant texts and some self-important straights thinking about how queer they are. Too bad, really, since the editor and driving force behind the book really seems intelligent, interesting, and aware.
Thoughts on specific essays starting here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/91657#2035518 ( )