Queering the non/human /
What might it mean to queer the Human? By extension, how is the Human employed within queer theory? Featuring essays by international pioneering scholars in queer theory, critical theory, cultural studies and science studies, this volume reconsiders the way we think about queer theory, the category...
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
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| Series: | Queer interventions.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Queering the non/human / Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird
- How queer can you go? Theory, normality and bormativity / Claire Colebrook
- (Con)founding 'the human': incestuous beginning / Vicki Kirby
- Queer apocal(o)ptic/ism: the death drive and the human / Noreen Giffney
- Queering the beast: the antichrists' gay wedding / Erin Runions
- Queering the un/godly: Christ's humanities and medieval sexualities / Robert Mills
- Unnatural predators: queer theory meets environmental studies in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Robert Azzarello
- The werewolf as queer, the queer as werewolf, and queer werewolves / Phillip A. Bernhardt-House
- The face of a dog: Levinasian ethics and human/dog co-evolution / Karalyn Kendall
- 'I married my dog': on queer canine literature / Alice A. Kuzniar
- Animal trans / Myra J. Hird
- Lessons from a starfish / Eva Hayward
- Animating revolt/revolting animation: penguin love, doll sex and the spectacle of the queer nonhuman / Judith Halberstam
- The nanoengineering of desire / Luciana Parisi
- Queer causation and the ethics of mattering / Karan Barad
- Necrosexuality 339 / Patricia MacCormack
- Afterword: an unfinished conversation about glowing green bunnies / Jeffrey J. Cohen.