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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,140 ratings — published 1989
Epistemology of the Closet (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,272 ratings — published 1990
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,256 ratings — published 2004
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,855 ratings — published 2009
The Queer Art of Failure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,855 ratings — published 2011
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,632 ratings — published 2006
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,271 ratings — published 1976
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,722 ratings — published 1993
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 939 ratings — published 1999
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,270 ratings — published 2004
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,269 ratings — published 2007
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,172 ratings — published 2005
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,892 ratings — published 2007
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,478 ratings — published 1999
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,670 ratings — published 1998
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,766 ratings — published 2008
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 699 ratings — published 2002
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 362 ratings — published 2007
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,589 ratings — published 2008
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,336 ratings — published 1984
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,501 ratings — published 1999
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.54 — 35,630 ratings — published 1993
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,294 ratings — published 2004
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 364 ratings — published 2003
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,511 ratings — published 2006
Queer Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 672 ratings — published 1996
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 55,479 ratings — published 2015
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,280 ratings — published 2016
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 264 ratings — published 2009
Is the Rectum a Grave?: and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 228 ratings — published 2009
Homosexual Desire (Series Q)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 237 ratings — published 1972
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,127 ratings — published 2011
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 248 ratings — published 2005
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 207 ratings — published 1993
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,343 ratings — published 1994
The Straight Mind: And Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,516 ratings — published 1980
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 637 ratings — published 1985
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 603 ratings — published 2014
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,244 ratings — published 2002
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 19,105 ratings — published 2020
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 352 ratings — published 2003
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,164 ratings — published 2011
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 441 ratings — published 2006
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 593 ratings — published 2003
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,495 ratings — published 1984
Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 506 ratings — published 2013
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,355 ratings — published 1987
The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 68 ratings — published 2009
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 840 ratings — published 2004
Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,129 ratings — published 2020
“If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs more queering and fewer cops.”
― Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
― Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
“The assumption that femininity is always structured by and performed for a male gaze fails to take seriously queer feminine desire. The radical feminist critiques of femininity also disregarded the fact that not all who are (seen as) feminine are women. Crucially, what is viewed as appropriately feminine is not only defined in relation to maleness or masculinity, but through numerous intersections of power including race, sexuality, ability, and social class. In other words, white, heterosexual, binary gender-conforming, able-bodied, and upper- or middle-class femininity is privileged in relation to other varieties. Any social system may contain multiple femininities that differ in status, and which relate to each other as well as to masculinity. As highlighted by “effeminate” gay men, trans women, femmes, drag queens, and “bad girls,” it is possible to be perceived as excessively, insufficiently, or wrongly feminine without for that sake being seen as masculine. Finally, the view of femininity as a restrictive yet disposable mask presupposes that emancipation entails departure into neutral (or masculine) modes of being. This is a tenuous assumption, as the construction of selfhood is entangled with gender, and conceptions of androgyny and gender neutrality similarly hinge on culturally specific ideas of masculinity and femininity.”
― Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research
― Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research
