The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory

The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory

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  • Author: Noreen Giffney
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317041895
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 558

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. The terms ’queer’ and ’theory’ are put under interrogation by a combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, in an effort to map the relations and disjunctions between them. These contributors are especially attendant to the many theoretical discourses intersecting with queer theory, including feminist theory, LGBT studies, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, disability studies, Marxism, poststructuralism, critical race studies and posthumanism, to name a few. This Companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of queer scholarship from the past two decades and identifies many current directions queer theorizing is taking, while also signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable and authoritative resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism

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  • Author: David Paternotte
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317042913
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in relation to activism-that is the claims, strategies and mobilisations (including internal debates and divisions, impediments and state responses) of the lesbian and gay movement. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism

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  • Author: David Paternotte
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  • ISBN: 9781785397325
  • Category : Electronic books
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality

The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality

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  • Author: Andrew K.T. Yip
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317043847
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality provides academics and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of sexuality and religion, broadly defined. This collection of expert essays offers an inter-disciplinary study of the important aspects of sexuality and religion, calling upon sociological, cultural, historical and theological contributions to an under-researched subject. The Companion focuses on the exploration of diverse religious faiths, spiritualities, and sexualities with contributions that embrace many contrasting approaches related to the contemporary context. By adopting a truly inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional perspective, the Companion embraces the complexities of both sexuality and religion. Aimed primarily at a readership with specialist interest in both, The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality offers an innovative and refreshing analysis of key theoretical and empirical issues in an increasingly relevant and expanding area of academic interest. The Companion comprises five main thematic sections, each with chapters ranging across a variety of crucial topics traversing various faith traditions. The principal themes are: epistemological and methodological issues; the significance of religious text; institutional religious settings; stability transformation and change; contesting hegemonic structures and discourses. Each section includes four chapters contributed by leading international experts in their respective fields and who are at the cutting-edge of current research. Collectively, they offer an inter-disciplinary and comprehensive survey of sexuality and religion.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism

The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism

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  • Author: Dr Maria Rovisco
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1409494527
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 448

The study of Cosmopolitanism has been transformed in the last 20 years and the subject itself has become highly discussed across the social sciences and the humanities. The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism pursues distinct theoretical orientations and empirical analyses, bringing together mainstream discussions with the newest thinking and developments on the main themes, debates and controversies surrounding the subject.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory

The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory

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  • Author: Vanessa E. Munro
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317043421
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 436

As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the extensive range of subject-matters, which are now included within its ambit. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the book provides a concise but critical review of existing theory in relation to the core issues or concepts that have animated, and continue to animate, feminism. It provides an authoritative and scholarly review of contemporary feminist legal thought, and seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of some of its new approaches, perspectives, and subject-matters. The Companion is divided into three parts, dealing with 'Theory', 'Concepts' and 'Issues'. The first part addresses theoretical questions which are of significance to law, but which also connect to feminist theory at the broadest and most interdisciplinary level. The second part also draws on general feminist theory, but with a more specific focus on debates about equality and difference, race, culture, religion, and sexuality. The 'Issues' section considers in detail more specific areas of substantive legal controversy.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

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  • Author: Derek B. Scott
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 9780754664765
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 580

The research presented in this volume is very recent, and the general approach is that of rethinking popular musicology: its purpose, its aims, and its methods. Contributors to the volume were asked to write something original and, at the same time, to provide an instructive example of a particular way of working and thinking. The essays have been written with a view to helping graduate students with research methodology and the application of relevant theoretical models. The Ashgate Research Companion is designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companion's editor brings together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.


Queer Methods and Methodologies

Queer Methods and Methodologies

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  • Author: Catherine J. Nash
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317072669
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 367

Queer Methods and Methodologies provides the first systematic consideration of the implications of a queer perspective in the pursuit of social scientific research. This volume grapples with key contemporary questions regarding the methodological implications for social science research undertaken from diverse queer perspectives, and explores the limitations and potentials of queer engagements with social science research techniques and methodologies. With contributors based in the UK, USA, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand and Australia, this truly international volume will appeal to anyone pursuing research at the intersections between social scientific research and queer perspectives, as well as those engaging with methodological considerations in social science research more broadly.


The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700

The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700

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  • Author: Professor Michael G Brennan
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 1409450406
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 401

Presented in two volumes, this Ashgate Research Companion assesses the current state of scholarship on members of the Sidney family and their impact, as historical and/or literary figures in the period 1500-1700. Volume 2, Literature, begins with an exploration of the Sidneys' books and manuscripts and how they circulated, followed by an overview of the contributions of select family members in the genres of romance, drama, poetry, psalms, and prose. These essays outline major controversies and areas for further research, as well as conducting literary analysis.


Was ist Homosexualität?

Was ist Homosexualität?

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  • Author: Florian Mildenberger
  • Publisher: Männerschwarm Verlag
  • ISBN: 3863001753
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 762

Umreißt man heute die Ambivalenz, Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Homosexualität, so ist die Antwort auf die Frage gar nicht so einfach. Lange Zeit hätte man einfach gesagt: das Gegenteil von Heterosexualität, pervers, nicht den sexuellen Normen entsprechend, die innerhalb der westlichen Welt weitgehend akzeptiert waren. In einer globalisierten Welt, die gewachsene Strukturen und kulturelle Identitäten in Frage stellt, befindet sich auch die wissenschaftliche Betrachtung menschlicher Sexualitäten im Umbruch. Die Begriffe ändern sich, aus 'homosexuell' wurde 'schwul/lesbisch', dann 'LSBT*I', bzw. 'LGBT/GLBT', als weiterer Oberbegriff entwickelte sich 'queer', der auch die Heterosexualität in Teilen mit umfasst. Mit der zunehmenden Akzeptanz sexueller Vielfalt wächst aber auch die Sehnsucht nach einer klaren Ordnung, zeichnet sich eine neue Diskriminierung nicht-heterosexueller Lebensweisen ab. In dieser Situation bilanzieren die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bands, was in über hundert Jahren ‹Homosexualitätsforschung› geleistet wurde und vor welchen Herausforderungen eine sozialwissenschaftlich orientierte Sexualwissenschaft heute steht. Jeder Beitrag (einige in englischer Sprache) gibt einen allgemeinverständlichen Überblick über sein Themengebiet und schließt mit einer ausführlichen Literaturliste, die zu weitergehenden Studien einlädt. "Auch einer nichtwissenschaftlichen, aber am Thema interessierten Leserschaft kann das Buch empfohlen werden – um leichte Kost für eilige Leser handelt es sich bei diesem fast 600 Seiten starken Werk aber nicht. Lobenswert ist das ausführliche Autorenverzeichnis im Anhang, das bei einer besseren Einordnung und Nachvollziehbarkeit der unterschiedlichen Argumentationen hilft. Durch ein nicht minder ausführliches Register lassen sich wichtige Personen und Schlagworte schnell und unkompliziert lokalisieren. [...] hier handelt es sich um eine in diesem Umfang wohl einmalige Zusammenstellung, die sich auf der Höhe des aktuellen Forschungsstands befindet und gewiss noch einige Zeit als Grundlagenwerk gelten dürfte. (Matthias Meitzler in "Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung", Heft 2/2015)