TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seidman,Steven
TI  - Difference troubles: queering social theory and sexual politics 
T2  - Cambridge cultural social studies
SN  - 0521599709
AV  - HM276. S445 1997
U1  - 301.01 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - Difference (Psychology)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Lesbian feminist theory
KW  - Gay and lesbian studies
KW  - Postmodernism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-303) and index; Introduction: The contemporary reconfiguring of social theory and cultural politics --; Part I; Resisting Difference: The Malaise of the Human Sciences: --; 1; The political unconscious of the human sciences --; 2; The end of sociological theory --; 3; Relativizing sociology: the challenge of cultural studies --; 4; The refusal of sexual difference: queering sociology --; 5; Difference troubles: the flight of sociology from 'otherness' --; Part II; Between Identity and Difference: From Lesbian and Gay to Queer Theory: --; 6; Identity and politics in a 'postmodern' gay culture --; 7; Deconstructing queer theory or some difficulties in a theory and politics of difference --; Part III; Democratic Prospects: The Politics of Knowledge and Identity: --; 8; Transfiguring sexual identity: aids and the cultural politics of sexuality and homosexuality --; 9; From gay ethnicity to queer politics: the renewal of gay radicalism in the United States --; 10; Postmodern anxiety: the politics of epistemology --; 11; The politics of sexual difference in late twentieth century America --; 12; 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
ER  -