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Revisiting Queer Studies

Date Published: 5/21/2020

The Revisiting Queer Studies reading list features titles that examine queerness today. Topics include queerness in poor and working-class populations, the transformation of sexuality as bodies age, decolonizing queerness, the relationship between queerness and antinormativity, queer migration, contemporary coming-out stories, and more.

The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.



BOOK

Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University

Matt Brim
2020


BOOK

The Lonely Letters

Ashon T. Crawley
2020


JOURNAL ARTICLE

A Queerness of Extraction

After Globalism Writing Group
Social Text 134, 2018


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Reflecting on Decolonial Queer

Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 25:3, 2019


JOURNAL ISSUE

Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes

Adi Kuntsman and Noor Al-Qasimi, editors
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 8:3, 2012


BOOK

Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women

E. Patrick Johnson
2019


BOOK

The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games

Bonnie Ruberg
2020


JOURNAL ISSUE

Queer Theory without Antinormativity

Robyn Wiegman and Elizabeth A. Wilson, editors
differences 26:1, 2015


JOURNAL ARTICLE

"Finally, She’s Accepted Herself!": Coming Out in Neoliberal Times

Stephanie D. Clare
Social Text 131, 2017


JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Sexual Imaginarium: A Reappraisal

Karen Tongson and Scott Herring
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 25:1, 2019


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Useful In/stability: The Dialectical Production of the Social and Spatial Lesbian Herstory Archives

Jen Jack Gieseking
Radical History Review 122, 2015


BOOK

Queer Korea

Todd A. Henry, editor
2020


BOOK

The Queer Art of Failure

Jack Halberstam
2011


BOOK

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

Dean Spade
2015


JOURNAL SECTION

GLQ Forum/Queer Battle Fatigue in Classrooms and Communities

Boni Wozolek, editor
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 26:2, 2020


BOOK

My Butch Career: A Memoir

Esther Newton
2018


BOOK

Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

Ronak K. Kapadia
2019


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