Queer: A Graphic History

'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' ViceActivist-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 behaviour 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.

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'Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender ... an utterly un-dusty tome that questions everything from the way we categorise our sexual desire to the foundations of happiness.' VICE

Product details

• Authors: John Barker, Meg John Barker, Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele, Julia Scheele
• Assisted by: Jules Scheele (Illustration), Julia Scheele (Illustration)
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9781785780714
• ISBN: 978-1-78578-071-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 255 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Icon Books; Introducing . . .; Introducing...; Graphic Guides
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Graphic Novels, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Literature: history and criticism, Sex & Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, American style / tradition comic books