Difference troubles : queering social theory and sexual politics / Steven Seidman.
"Difference Troubles examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the contemporary reconfiguring of social theory
- 1. The political unconscious of the human sciences
- 2. The end of sociological theory
- 3. Relativizing sociology: the challenge of cultural studies
- 4. The refusal of sexual difference: queering sociology
- 5. Difference troubles: the flight of sociology from "otherness"
- 6. Identity and politics in a "postmodern" gay culture
- 7. Deconstructing queer theory, or some difficulties in a theory and politics of difference
- 8. Transfiguring identity: AIDS and the cultural politics of sexuality and homosexuality, 1981-1986
- 9. From gay ethnicity to queer politics: the renewal of gay radicalism in the United States
- 10. Postmodern anxiety: the politics of epistemology.