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Queer - A Graphic History

By: Icon Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Gender Studies (Icon Books)

Last Stocked on 6/17/2023

Product Info

Title
Queer - A Graphic History
Publisher
Category
Author
Meg-John Barker & Jules Scheele
Publish Year
2016
Pages
176
Dimensions
7x10x.5"
NKG Part #
2147959342
Type
Softcover

Description

Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.

From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.

Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what’s ‘normal’ – Alfred Kinsey’s view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler’s view of gendered behavior as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we’re invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media.

Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking.