Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
10 best books like Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Gayatri Gopinath): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Trust Exercise, Jude the Obscure, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
| Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
| ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
| Author | Susan Choi |
| ISBN | 1250309883 |
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 0486452433 |
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| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0814757138 |
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...
| Author | Ann Laura Stoler |
| ISBN | 0822316900 |
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines...
| Author | Siobhan B. Somerville |
| ISBN | 0822324431 |
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature,...
| Author | Margot Canaday |
| ISBN | 0691135983 |
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
| Author | Ann Cvetkovich |
| ISBN | 0822330881 |
In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing---and archiving---accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. Cvetkovich contends that the field...
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
| Author | J. Jack Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0814735851 |
In his first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, J. Jack Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. He presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
| Author | Roderick A. Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0816641293 |
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture--sexual difference--can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses...
The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
| Author | Lisa Duggan |
| ISBN | 0807079553 |
By now we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last thirty years, and particularly during the last decade. But economic changes like this don't occur in a vacuum; they're always linked to politics. The Twilight of Equality? searches out these links through...
