Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age

by Kay Siebler

Book Overview

This book explores, through specific analysis of media representations, personal interviews, and historical research, how the digital environment perpetuates harmful and limiting stereotypes of queerness. Siebler argues that heteronormativity has co-opted queer representations, largely in order to sell goods, surgeries, and lifestyles, reinforcing instead of disrupting the masculine and feminine heterosexual binaries through capitalist consumption....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349956449
• ISBN13: 9781349956449
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"