The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.

The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents:

individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts

essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders

writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, José Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed.

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.

Reviews

'It is hard to imagine a volume that could represent the field more knowingly!' Robyn Wiegman, Duke University, USA

'This fresh, innovative, and significant volume demonstrates convincingly the queer moment is by no means over.' Laura Doan, University of Manchester, UK

'Get prepared to enter a scene of provocation, a sexy sort of maelstrom, where trans meets butch meets brown meets "quare" meets intersex, racial, post-colonial, and disabled matters in juxtaposition, in telling combinations. Even subtleties and biting formulations appear side by side, in a queer cubism, leading both students and scholars to thoughts that will startle and seduce them.' Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah, USA

Contents

Part 1: Genealogies

1. Queer And Now Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

2. Critically Queer Judith Butler

3. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and The Transubstantiation Of Sex Jay Prosser

4. The Queer tion Steven Angelides

5. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy J. Cohen

6. ‘Quare’ Studies, Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother E. Patrick Johnson

7. Introduction: Queer of Color Critique, Historical Materialism, And Canonical Sociology Roderick A. Ferguson

8. The Material of Sex (Excerpts) Rosemary Hennessy

9. Lacan Meets Queer Theory Tim Dean

Part 2: Sex

10. Sex in Public Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner

11. Viral Sex and The Politics Of Life Gregory Tomso

12. Experimental Desire: Rethinking Queer Subjectivity Elizabeth Grosz

13. Dinge Robert Reid-Pharr

Part 3: Temporalities

14. Do you want queer theory or do you want the truth? Intersections of punk and queer in the 1970s Tavia Nyong’o

15. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History Elizabeth Freeman

16. How to Do th...