Queering Desire

Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity
Herausgeber: Tooth Murphy, Amy; Ryan-Flood, Roisin

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer womenâ s and non-binary peopleâ s experiences of identity and desire.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Gender and Society
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781032499048
• ISBN-10: 1032499044
• Artikelnr.: 69483318

Autorenporträt

Róisín Ryan-Flood is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex, UK. Her research interests encompass gender, sexuality, kinship, digital intimacies, and feminist epistemology. Her books include Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship (2009), Difficult Conversations: A Feminist Dialogue (2023) and Consent: Gender, Power and Subjectivity (2023). She is co-editor of the journal Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society. Amy Tooth Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Oral History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research interests include butch/femme identities and culture, and queer oral history theory and method. She is the co-editor of New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption and is a Trustee of the Oral History Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
SECTION 1: (IN)VISIBILITY AND THE QUEER GAZE
1. Queer old movie star
2. Staging our desires: Drag kings and the pleasures of community building
3. 'In their loving gaze I saw who I could be': Revisiting the butch/femme
couple as joint subject through Esther Newton's My Butch Career
4. Transcripts, TransTape(TM), Transience: Locating the bisexual butch
5. The punchline isn't everything: Feminist and queer stand-up dramedy
6. Gender, sexuality and visual culture - an interview with Rosalind Gill
SECTION 2: LINEAGE AND GENERATIONAL SHIFTS
7. Femme frontiers: Tracing the lineage of fore-femmes through to
contemporary identities and femme theory
8. Book Banning in the U.S.: A call for multi-generational activism
9. From Butch and Femme Lesbians to Non-binary and Queer Women:
Intergenerational Shifts from In-person Places to Digital Spaces
10. Carabiners and Violet Tattoos: the desire for nostalgia in online
lesbian space
11. Increased Lesbian Visibility and its Discontents: Comparing the coming
out stories of women and nonbinary people across generations
12. Queer lineage: On generational sexualities, LGBTQ identity and
visibility
SECTION 3: QUEER EMBODIMENT
13. Against Pathology: Exploring the Desire for Femininity
14. Complicating queer desires: Identity politics of the lesbian and
bisexual communities in South Africa
15. My own private non-binary body
16. 'Aren't you ashamed?': Explicit representation and shame in the work of
Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson and Melissa Febos
17. Trans history and politics - an interview with Susan Stryker
18. Midlife lesbian: Alison Bechdel and Me
SECTION 4: QUEER LONGINGS
19. Desiring Technologies: Digital Pathways toward Black Queer Sociality
20. The butch on the ferry: The affect and effect of butch longing
21. Desire on the Inside: Incarcerated Women, Bisexual Identity, and Human
Connection
22. Queering romance: Expressions of love and intimacy in
late-twentieth-century lesbian relationships
23. Intimacy or intimacies? Queering Jewish women's desires and intimate
lives
24. Naming desire: Information seeking and breaking the silence around
queer female desire in mid-twentieth-century Britain
25. Beloved: Crafting lesbian desire and femme intimacies with the Ladies
of Llangollen