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Author Huffer, Lynne, 1960-

Title Mad for Foucault : rethinking the foundations of queer theory / Lynne Huffer
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 344 pages) : illustrations
Series Gender and culture series
Gender and culture.
Contents Preface: Why we need Madness -- Introduction: Mad for Foucault -- How we became queer -- First interlude : Nietzsche's dreadful attendant -- Queer moralities -- Second interlude: wet dreams -- Unraveling the queer psyche -- Third interlude: of meteors and madness -- A queer nephew -- Fourth interlude: a shameful lyricism -- A political ethic of Eros -- Postlude: A fool's laughter
Summary Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique, Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Bürger, Christa 1935- Postmoderne gnd
Foucault, Michel. swd
Subject Homosexuality.
Postmodernism.
Queer theory.
Homosexuality
homosexuality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Deconstruction.
Homosexuality
Postmodernism
Queer theory
Homosexualität
Queer-Theorie
Homoseksualiteit.
Travestie.
Sekseverschillen.
Waanzin.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009012554
ISBN 0231520514
9780231520515
9781283149693
1283149699
9786613149695
6613149691