Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing

by Lee Edelman

Book Overview

Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity--a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018623
• ISBN13: 9781478018629
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"