What the Campus Community Has to Say About the Field

People

 Judith Butler  Gayle Rubin Eve Sedgwick Michael Warner
Michel Foucault       
       

 

Terms

 Queer

Performative

 Performativity

 Essentialism

 Hetrosexism

 Homosocial

 Camp

   

 

On-Campus Links

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Alliance

Controversies: Identity & Post-Identity

Performance Theory

Queer Theory Explained

Reflections on Camp

 

Off-Campus Links

Ashland's Abdill-Ellis Lambda Community Center

David Gauntlett's (wonderful) queer theory site

The Queer Resources Directory

Transgender Home Page

 

Suggested Readings

Bergmann, Emilie L. and Paul Julian Smith. Entiendes? : Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings. Durham : Duke University Press, 1995. PQ7081.A1 E59 1995 (Alvarez)

Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues. Firebrand Books, 1993. (Eckhart)

Garber, Marjorie B. Vice Versa : Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995. (Hedges)

Halperin, David M., Henry Abelove, and Michele Aina Barale. The Lesbian and gay studies reader. New York : Routledge, 1993. (Hedges)

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between men : English literature and male homosocial desire. New York : Columbia University Press, 1985. PR409.M38 S4 1985 (Hedges)

Trujillo, Carla Mari. Chicana lesbians : the girls our mothers warned us about. Berkeley : Third Woman Press, c1991. (Alvarez)

 

Suggested Exercises

Why Surf When You Can Cruise? Internet Excercise. Hedges, English 300.

 

 Example Papers and Projects

"Marginalization & Eroticization in Vampire Fiction" by Emily Stater

 

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