Queer Studies ― Beyond Binaries

Queer Studies is designed as an advanced undergraduate textbook in queer studies for this rapidly growing field. It is also appropriate as an early required or recommended graduate textbook in queer, gender, and sexuality studies. The author uses the overarching concept of queering, drawn from queer theory, as a way of looking at the lives of queer people across a range of concepts drawn from different academic and scholarly disciplines. The intention is to survey these disciplines, beginning with the foundational study of language, and then to examine a variety of human experiences, including education, the rituals of marriage, and advocacy for justice.

Bruce Henderson is professor of communication studies at Ithaca College, where he previously served as the department’s chair. He has served as editor in chief of Text & Performance Quarterly and Disability Studies Quarterly. He is the coauthor of several textbooks and scholarly collections in performance studies and disability studies.