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Queer Interventions: Queer Interventions

About the Book Series

Founded by Noreen Giffney and Michael O'Rourke, Queer Interventions is an exciting, fresh and unique new series designed to publish innovative, experimental and theoretically-engaged work in the burgeoning field of queer studies. The aim of the series is to attract work which is highly theoretical; queer work which intersects with other theoretical schools (feminism, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, Marxism); work which is accessible but values difficulty; ethical and political projects; and most importantly work which is self-reflexive about methodological and geographical location. It is also keen to commission empirical work which is meta-theoretical in focus. The series is interdisciplinary in focus and publishes monographs and collections of essays by new and established scholars. It promotes and maintains high scholarly standards of research and is attentive to queer theory's shortcomings, silences, hegemonies and exclusions. It also encourages independence, creativity and experimentation: to make a queer theory that matters and recreate it as something important; a space where new and exciting things can happen.

6 Series Titles


Queer Attachments The Cultural Politics of Shame

Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame

1st Edition

By Sally R. Munt
July 18, 2019

Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture? What is its role in stigmatizing subcultures such as the Irish, the queer or the underclass? Can shame be understood as a productive force? In this lucid and passionately argued book, Sally R. Munt explores the vicissitudes of shame ...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory

The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Noreen Giffney, Michael O'Rourke
August 15, 2017

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. The terms ’queer’ and ’theory’ are put under interrogation by a combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range...

Queer Futures Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political

Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political

1st Edition

Edited By Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Eveline Kilian, Beatrice Michaelis
June 16, 2017

Following debates surrounding the anti-social turn in queer theory in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the role of activism, the limits of the political, and the question of normativity and ethics. Queer Futures engages with these concerns, exploring issues of complicity and ...

Cinesexuality

Cinesexuality

1st Edition

By Patricia MacCormack
March 29, 2017

Cinesexuality explores the queerness of cinema spectatorship, arguing that cinema spectatorship represents a unique encounter of desire, pleasure and perversion beyond dialectics of subject/object and image/meaning; an extraordinary 'cinesexual' relationship, that encompasses each event of cinema ...

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory

1st Edition

By Mark Graham
January 19, 2017

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discussion of gender categories and identities that have often constituted a central concern of queer theory and instead exploring the queer elements of ...

Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory Contested Sites

Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory: Contested Sites

1st Edition

By Patricia Elliot
September 30, 2016

Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women’s studies, sexuality, gender and transgender studies, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist ...

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