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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,489 ratings — published 1989
Epistemology of the Closet (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,327 ratings — published 1990
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,311 ratings — published 2004
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,011 ratings — published 2009
The Queer Art of Failure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,075 ratings — published 2011
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,835 ratings — published 2006
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,622 ratings — published 1976
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,845 ratings — published 1993
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 960 ratings — published 1999
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,366 ratings — published 2004
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,363 ratings — published 2007
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,307 ratings — published 2007
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,218 ratings — published 2005
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,485 ratings — published 1999
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,067 ratings — published 2008
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 734 ratings — published 2002
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,774 ratings — published 1998
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 377 ratings — published 2007
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,905 ratings — published 2008
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,549 ratings — published 1999
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,597 ratings — published 1984
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 367 ratings — published 2003
Queer Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 685 ratings — published 1996
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,291 ratings — published 2004
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 39,519 ratings — published 1993
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,567 ratings — published 2020
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities)
by (shelved 23 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 290 ratings — published 2009
Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 245 ratings — published 2009
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,520 ratings — published 2006
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,477 ratings — published 2016
The Straight Mind: And Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,842 ratings — published 1980
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 651 ratings — published 1985
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,310 ratings — published 2015
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 206 ratings — published 1993
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,414 ratings — published 1994
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,152 ratings — published 2011
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 845 ratings — published 2004
Homosexual Desire (Series Q)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 254 ratings — published 1972
Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,243 ratings — published 2002
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 603 ratings — published 2003
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 247 ratings — published 2005
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 603 ratings — published 2014
Feminist, Queer, Crip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,120 ratings — published 2013
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,642 ratings — published 1984
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,528 ratings — published 1980
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,189 ratings — published 2011
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,906 ratings — published 1987
Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,722 ratings — published 2020
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 359 ratings — published 2003
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 985 ratings — published 2013
“At the core of Lacanian ethics is therefore the idea that the subject who steps into the real - the place of the lack in the Other - severes its ties to the symbolic order. Such a subject is no longer embarassed by its inability to adhere to the rules of social behavior but instead embraces - feels compelled to embrace - the destructive energies of the real. This subject is not interested in trying to solve its problem within the parameteres of the system but rather insists on changing the game entirely, on defying the very structuring principles of the system, which is why "the act" opens a gateway to what might, from the perspective of the established order, seem completely inconceivable (or even utterly insane).”
― The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
― The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects
“For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us
temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about
genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about
genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
