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Queer Theories

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Donald E. Hall
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  • Explains complex theories in clear language, and an accessible style
    Suggests new directions for studies in sexual identity
    Offers imaginative new readings of key texts including Orlando, Giovanni's Room and The Color Purple

Part of the book series: Transitions (TRANSs)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: What “Queer Theories” Can do for You

    1. Introduction: What “Queer Theories” Can do for You

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 1-18

  3. The Social Construction of Queer Theories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. A Brief, Slanted History of “Homosexual” Activity

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 21-50

    3. Who and What is “Queer”?

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 51-85

    4. Queering Class, Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 86-111

  4. Queer Readings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. The Queerness of “The Yellow Wall-Paper”

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 115-129

    3. Queering the Self: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 130-147

    4. Reading for Excess: The Queer Texts of Orlando, Giovanni’s Room, and The Color Purple

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 148-171

  5. Post Queer?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Afterword: W(h)ither Identity?

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 175-190

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 191-214
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About this book

This essential introductory guide explores and aggressively expands the provocative new field of sexual identity studies. It explains the history of sexual identity categories, such as 'gay' and 'lesbian', covers the reclamation of 'queer' as a term of radical self-identification, and details recent challenges to sexual identity studies posed by transgender and bisexual theories. Donald E. Hall offers concrete applications of the abstract theories he explores, with imaginative new readings of such works as 'The Yellow Wallpaper', Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Orlando and The Color Purple.

Throughout, Hall urges the reader to grapple with the changing nature of sexual identity in the twenty-first century and asks searching questions about how we might identify ourselves differently given new technologies and new possibilities for sexual experimentation. To students, theorists and activists alike, Queer Theories issues a challenge to continue to disrupt narrow, traditional notions of sexual 'normality' and to resist setting up new and confining categories of 'true' sexual identity.

About the author

DONALD E. HALL is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Queer Theories

  • Authors: Donald E. Hall

  • Series Title: Transitions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1356-2

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 214

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Literary Theory

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