Queering gay and lesbian studies /Thomas Piontek.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2006.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Forget Stonewall : making gay history perfectly queer -- Queering the rhetoric of the gay male sex wars -- How gay theory and the gay movement betrayed the sissy boy -- Queer alternatives to men and women -- Redrawing the map of the gender-and-sex landscape : gender, identity and the performativity of queer sex.
Sexuality is neither stable, tidy, nor developmental. This new study provides a critical analysis of the development of gay and lesbian studies alongside the development of queer theory, the disputes between them, and criticism of their activities from both in and outside of the gay academic community.