An essential anthology of leading academics, activists, and artists on the state of queer studies today.
Founded in 1992, the David R. Kessler lectures represent the foreground of queer studies in the US, featuring legendary thinkers such as Cherre Moraga, Samuel Delaney, Barbara Smith, Judith Butler, and more. Queer Then and Nowcollects the speeches given from 2002 to 2020, as well as two scholarly roundtables, by some of the most influential scholars, artists, and activists of the last two decades, including Gayle Rubin, Cathy J. Cohen, Dean Spade, Sara Ahmed, Jasbir K. Puar, and the late Douglas Crimp and Adrienne Rich.
Diverse and dynamic, these intertextual conversations tackle some of today's most important interventions from the margins-including the growth of trans studies, the synergy and disconnect between theory and activism, the role of LGBTQ+ art and media, the challenge of transnational and postcolonial theory, and more. Tracing the maturation of queer studies after its foundation in the 1990s, Queer Then and Nowlays the groundwork in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Edited by:
Debanuj Dasgupta,
Joseph Donica,
Margot Weiss
Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 757g
ISBN: 9781952177224
ISBN 10: 1952177227
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 22 November 2023
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Introduction: Queer Ideas, Messy Archives, and the Then and Now of Queer Studies Chapter 1: 2002: Jonathan Ned Katz, Making Sex History: Obsessions of a Quarter Century Chapter 2: 2003: Gayle Rubin, Geologies of Queer Studies: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again Chapter 3: 2004: Isaac Julien, Cinematic Rearticulations Chapter 4: 2005: Carole Vance, Travels With Sex Chapter 5: 2006: Adrienne Rich, Candidates for my Love: Three Gay and Lesbian Poets Chapter 6: 2007: Douglas Crimp, Action Around the Edges Chapter 7: 2008: Susan Stryker, Ghost Dances: A Trans-movement Manifesto Chapter 8: 2009: Sarah Schulman, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences Chapter 9: 2010: Urvashi Vaid, What Can Brown Do For You?: Race, Sexuality and the Future of LGBT Politics Chapter 10: Queer Then and Now Roundtable: Histories of Queer and Trans Activism Chapter 11: 2012: Martin Duberman, Acceptance at What Price?: The Gay Movement Reconsidered Chapter 12: 2013: Cheryl Clarke, Queer Black Trouble: In Life, Literature, and the Age of Obama Chapter 13: 2014: Cathy J. Cohen, #DoBlackLivesMatter? From Michael Brown to CeCe McDonald Chapter 14: 2015: Richard Fung, Re-Orientations: Shift and continuities in Asian Canadian queer and trans identities and activism Chapter 15: 2016: Dean Spade, When We Win We Lose: Mainstreaming and the Redistribution of Respectability Chapter 16: 2017: Sara Ahmed, Queer Use 2 Chapter 17: 2018: Amber Hollibaugh, Hope and the Power of Desire: Our Vision for Changing the World Chapter 18: 2019: Jasbir Puar, A No-State “Solution”: Inter/nationalism and the Question of Queer Theory Chapter 19: 2020: Roderick Ferguson, Queer and Trans Liberation and the Critique of Fascism, or when S.T.A.R. Met Césaire and the Frankfurt School Chapter 20: Queer Then and Now Roundtable: Histories of Queer and Trans Scholarship
The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS), located at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, was founded in 1991 and is the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals and communities. Debanuj DasGupta is assistant professor of feminist studies at University of California at Santa Barbara. Debanuj's research and teaching focuses on racialized regulation of space, immigration detention, queer migrations and the global governance of migration, sexuality, and HIV. Joseph Donica is associate professor of English at Bronx Community College, CUNY. His research and teaching focus on Arab-American literature, urban studies, the history of technology, the legal and ethical framework of US citizenship, and queer diasporic literatures of the Middle East and North Africa. Margot Weiss is associate professor of American studies and anthropology at Wesleyan University, where she established and directs the cluster in Queer Studies and is affiliated with Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between queer sexual cultures and US neoliberal capitalism.
