The Gay '90s: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies

by Carol Siegel

Book Overview

Queer theory arose as a challenge to the stability of sexual categories. But is queer theory in the 1990s in danger of becoming just another category of theoretical inquiry and just another academic discipline? As queer studies is being legitimated within American universities, what dangers and opportunities arise from the process of legitimation?
The essays in The Gay '90s address these questions in two distinct ways. The first section...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726739
• ISBN13: 9780814726730
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"