Mad for Foucault - Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory

Informationen zum Autor Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's! Gender! and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and author of Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex; Maternal Pasts! Feminist Futures: Nostalgia! Ethics! and the Question of Difference; and Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing. Klappentext Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique! Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Why We Need Madness Acknowledgments Introduction: Mad for Foucault 1. How We Became Queer First Interlude: Nietzsche's Dreadful Attendant 2. Queer Moralities Second Interlude: Wet Dreams 3. Unraveling the Queer Psyche Third Interlude: Of Meteors and Madness 4. A Queer Nephew Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism 5. A Political Ethic of Eros Postlude: A Fool's Laughter Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Lynne Huffer, Lynne (Professor and Chair Huffer
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2009
• EAN: 9780231149181
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14918-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; Gender and Culture Series; Gender and Culture (Hardcover); New Directions in Critical Theory; Gender and Culture Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies