The Routledge Queer Studies Reader

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.
The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents:


individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts


essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders


writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, José Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed.

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.

Donald E. Hall is Professor and Herbert and Ann Siegel Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, USA.

Annamarie Jagose is Professor and Head of the School of Letters, Arts and Media at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Andrea Bebell is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at West Virginia University, USA.

Susan Potter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Aotearoa.

Part 1: Genealogies 1. Queer And Now Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2. Critically Queer Judith Butler 3. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and The Transubstantiation Of Sex Jay Prosser 4. The Queer Intervention Steven Angelides 5. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy J. Cohen 6. ‘Quare’ Studies, Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother E. Patrick Johnson 7. Introduction: Queer of Color Critique, Historical Materialism, And Canonical Sociology Roderick A. Ferguson 8. The Material of Sex (Excerpts) Rosemary Hennessy 9. Lacan Meets Queer Theory Tim Dean Part 2: Sex 10. Sex in Public Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner 11. Viral Sex and The Politics Of Life Gregory Tomso 12. Experimental Desire: Rethinking Queer Subjectivity Elizabeth Grosz 13. Dinge Robert Reid-Pharr Part 3: Temporalities 14. Do you want queer theory or do you want the truth? Intersections of punk and queer in the 1970s Tavia Nyong’o 15. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History Elizabeth Freeman 16. How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality David M. Halperin 17. The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification and the Death Drive Lee Edelman Part 4: Kinship 18. Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas David Eng 19. Making Queer Familia Richard T. Rodríguez 20. Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories Mark Rifkin 21. Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality Elizabeth A. Povinelli Part 5: Affect 22. AIDS Activism And Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich 23. Archiving Queer Feelings in Hong Kong Helen Hok-Sze Leung 24. Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, And the Depressive Position José Esteban Muñoz 25. Queer Feelings Sara Ahmed Part 6: Bodies 26. What can queer theory do for intersex? Iain Morland 27. Transgender Butch: Butch/ FTM Border Wars And The Masculine Continuum Judith Halberstam 28. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness And Queer/Disabled Existence Robert McRuer 29. Hypothalamic Preference: Levay’s Study Of Sexual Orientation Elizabeth A. Wilson Part 7: Borders 30. Queer Times, Queer Assemblages Jasbir Puar 31. Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender In Migration Studies Martin F. Manalansan IV 32. Border/line Sex: Queer Postcolonialities or How Race Matters Outside the U.S. Anjali Arondekar 33. Transgender without Organs? Mobilizing a Geo-affective Theory of Gender Modification Lucas Cassidy Crawford