By Mel Y. Chen
Chen's e-book is the 1st to carry the concept that of animacy including queer of colour scholarship, serious animal reports, and incapacity conception. via analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness, animal protagonists in contemporary Asian/American paintings and picture, the lead in toys panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental disease, Animacies illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by means of race, sexuality, and skill. during this groundbreaking publication, Chen rethinks the factors governing organisation and receptivity, future health and toxicity, productiveness and stillness—and demonstrates how cognizance to the affective cost of subject demanding situations common-sense orderings of the world.
Read Online or Download Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Perverse modernities) PDF
Similar gay & lesbian nonfiction books
Colonialism and Homosexuality is a radical research of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the overdue 1800s - the period of 'new imperialism' - till the period of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a couple of liaisons, together with these of recognized males equivalent to Cecil Rhodes, E.
Friendship as a Way of Life: Foucault, AIDS, and the Politics of Shared Estrangement
Develops Foucault's past due paintings on friendship right into a novel critique of up to date GLBT political process. Borrowing its identify from a 1981 interview of Michel Foucault, Friendship as a manner of Life develops the philosopher's overdue paintings on friendship right into a novel critique of latest GLBT political method.
The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel
Whilst Israel declared its independence in 1948, Harry Truman issued a memo spotting the Israeli govt inside of 11 mins. this present day, the U. S. and Israel proceed on as companions in an now and then arguable alliance—an alliance, many argue, that's powerfully motivated by way of the Christian correct.
Peek: Inside the Private World of Public Sex
PEEK: contained in the inner most global of Public intercourse is an up shut and private examine impersonal intercourse, exploring where-to, how-to, and when-to have intercourse in public. This academic and instructive consultant finds the steamy international of intercourse in bathhouses, gyms, parks, peep exhibits, swinger’s golf equipment, men’s rooms, and cruising on the web.
- The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays
- Queer Jews
- Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others
- Queering Sexualities in Turkey: Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City (Library of Modern Turkey)
Extra resources for Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Perverse modernities)
Sample text
