Queer Democracy

Author : Daniel D. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000418847
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Democracy written by Daniel D. Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society. Daniel Miller argues that this metaphor has consistently expressed a desire for social and political order, grounded in the social body’s imagined normative shape or morphology. The consistent result, from the “concord” discourses of the pre-Christian Stoics, all the way through to contemporary nationalism and populism, has been the suppression of any dissent that would unmake the social body’s presumed normativity. Miller argues that the conception of embodiment at the heart of the metaphor is a fantasy, and that negative social and political reactions to dissent represent visceral, dysphoric responses to its reshaping of the social body. He argues that social body’s essential queerness, defined by fluidity and lack of a fixed morphology, spawns queer democracy, expressed through ongoing social and political practices that aim to extend liberty and equality to new social domains. Queer Democracy articulates a new departure for the ongoing development of theoretical articulations linking queer and trans theory with political theory. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers engaged in research on political theory, populism, US religion, gender studies, and queer studies.

Author : R. Claire Snyder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742527874
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gay Marriage and Democracy written by R. Claire Snyder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the context for and arguments in favor of same-sex marriage in the United States.

Author : Scott Tucker
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896085770
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queer Question written by Scott Tucker and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy, Scott Tucker issues a fierce clarion call to radicals and queers to be true to the democratic potential of the United States.

Author : Steven P. Camicia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134638280
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Democratic Education and LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum written by Steven P. Camicia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the relationship between politics and the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues are taught in schools. This book examines relationships between society, schools, and LGBTQ inclusion in order to understand perennial issues related to critical democratic education, and how schools are responding to generational shifts in ideology. By conducting a case study comparison of California and Utah, Camicia provides an in-depth view of the politically and culturally different landscapes that shape LGBTQ curriculum in schools. This book will synthesize and extend theoretical frameworks to describe, analyze, and interpret the shifting landscapes in public education as they relate to LGBTQ issues in schools. Through queer theory and democratic education theory, Camicia offers recommendations to public schools and teacher educators about socially just ways to create inclusive LGBTQ curriculum.

Author : Cynthia Burack
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478394
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sin, Sex, and Democracy written by Cynthia Burack and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Christian Right has spearheaded a variety of antigay projects over the past fifteen years, including interventions in public schools, antigay-rights initiatives, and support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, observers of the institutionalized Christian Right have also noted a softening of antigay public rhetoric. Sin, Sex, and Democracy analyzes these two ostensibly conflicting phenomena. Examining Christian witnessing tracts, the ex-gay movement, and recent linkages between gays and terrorists, Cynthia Burack argues that as the Christian Right has become a more sophisticated interest group, leaders have become adept at tailoring different messages for mainstream audiences and for the internal pedagogical processes of Christian conservatives. Understanding the rhetoric and the theological convictions that lie behind them, Burack claims, is essential to better understand how American politics work and how to effectively respond to exclusionary forms of political thought and practice.

Author : Isabell Lorey
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839767332
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in the Political Present written by Isabell Lorey and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.” In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities—one which cannot be conceived of without social movements’ past struggles and current practices.

Author : Marla Brettschneider
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479893870
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LGBTQ Politics written by Marla Brettschneider and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Harvey Milk to Barney Frank, and from ACT UP to Proposition 8, in the past few decades, no political change has been more significant than the civil rights advancements of LGBTQ citizens. LGBTQ Politics is the first authoritative reader to approach the complexity of queer politics from a political science persective, bringing together original contributions from leadings scholars in the field on key issues in LGBTQ politics. These original essays cover a wide range of essential topics, including marriage equality, transgender discrimination, gay and lesbian political candidates, LGBTQ human rights advocacy, HIV prevention, and LGBTQ movements of the Global South. The volume also includes a number of critical essays that reflect upon the state of political science as a discipline that has struggled to address queer politics. Contributors draw from a variety of subfields in political science, including comparative politics, political theory, American politics, public law, and international relations. Essays that focus on mainstream institutional politics appear alongside contributions grounded in grassroots movements and critical theory. While some essays express concerns that the democratic basis of the LGBTQ movement has been undermined, others celebrate the movement's successes and offer visions for the future. A comprehensive, thought-provoking, and authoritative collection, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader is required reading for anyone looking to learn about the politics of sexuality"--Back cover.

Author : R. Claire Snyder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742527867
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gay Marriage and Democracy written by R. Claire Snyder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the context for and arguments in favor of same-sex marriage in the United States.

Author : Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004748
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Ecologies written by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present a focused engagement with the critical, philosophical, and political dimensions of sex and nature. These discussions are particularly relevant to current debates in many disciplines, including environmental studies, queer theory, critical race theory, philosophy, literary criticism, and politics. As a whole, Queer Ecologies stands as a powerful corrective to views that equate "natural" with "straight" while "queer" is held to be against nature.

Author : Gema P‚rez-S nchez
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479773
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture written by Gema P‚rez-S nchez and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a sustained analysis of both high and low queer culture and its connections to cultural and political processes in Spain.