Queer : a graphic history / Meg-John Barker ; Julia Scheele.
2016
HQ76.25 .B375 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Queer : a graphic history / Meg-John Barker ; Julia Scheele.
ISBN
9781785780714 (paperback)
1785780719 (paperback)
1785780719 (paperback)
Published
London : Icon Books Ltd, 2016.
Language
English
Description
175 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm
Call Number
HQ76.25 .B375 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.76/6
Summary
"Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal'--Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler's view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 174).
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