Difference troubles : queering social theory and sexual politics /
Seidman, Steven,
Difference troubles : queering social theory and sexual politics / Steven Seidman. - xiii, 307 pages ; 24 cm. - Cambridge cultural social studies . - Cambridge cultural social studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-303) and index.
Introduction: The contemporary reconfiguring of social theory and cultural politics -- Resisting Difference: The Malaise of the Human Sciences: -- The political unconscious of the human sciences -- The end of sociological theory -- Relativizing sociology: the challenge of cultural studies -- The refusal of sexual difference: queering sociology -- Difference troubles: the flight of sociology from 'otherness' -- Between Identity and Difference: From Lesbian and Gay to Queer Theory: -- Identity and politics in a 'postmodern' gay culture -- Deconstructing queer theory or some difficulties in a theory and politics of difference -- Democratic Prospects: The Politics of Knowledge and Identity: -- Transfiguring sexual identity: aids and the cultural politics of sexuality and homosexuality -- From gay ethnicity to queer politics: the renewal of gay radicalism in the United States -- Postmodern anxiety: the politics of epistemology -- The politics of sexual difference in late twentieth century America -- Difference and democracy: group recognition and the political cultures of the United States, Holland, and France -- Epilogue: pragmatism, difference and a culture of strong democracy. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. Part III. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
0521599709 9780521599702 0521590434 9780521590433
97008908
Cultural pluralism
Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects
Lesbian feminist theory
Gay and lesbian studies
Postmodernism--Social aspects
HM276. / S445 1997
301.01
Difference troubles : queering social theory and sexual politics / Steven Seidman. - xiii, 307 pages ; 24 cm. - Cambridge cultural social studies . - Cambridge cultural social studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-303) and index.
Introduction: The contemporary reconfiguring of social theory and cultural politics -- Resisting Difference: The Malaise of the Human Sciences: -- The political unconscious of the human sciences -- The end of sociological theory -- Relativizing sociology: the challenge of cultural studies -- The refusal of sexual difference: queering sociology -- Difference troubles: the flight of sociology from 'otherness' -- Between Identity and Difference: From Lesbian and Gay to Queer Theory: -- Identity and politics in a 'postmodern' gay culture -- Deconstructing queer theory or some difficulties in a theory and politics of difference -- Democratic Prospects: The Politics of Knowledge and Identity: -- Transfiguring sexual identity: aids and the cultural politics of sexuality and homosexuality -- From gay ethnicity to queer politics: the renewal of gay radicalism in the United States -- Postmodern anxiety: the politics of epistemology -- The politics of sexual difference in late twentieth century America -- Difference and democracy: group recognition and the political cultures of the United States, Holland, and France -- Epilogue: pragmatism, difference and a culture of strong democracy. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. Part III. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
0521599709 9780521599702 0521590434 9780521590433
97008908
Cultural pluralism
Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects
Lesbian feminist theory
Gay and lesbian studies
Postmodernism--Social aspects
HM276. / S445 1997
301.01