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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our... -
Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory by Lee Edelman
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay critical analysis. Lee Edelman rearticulates the politics of sexuality, addressing some of the most hotly... -
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman 9780822333593
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our... -
Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing by Lee Edelman
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity-a queerness understood as a figural name for the... -
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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman 9780822333593 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £14.32In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our... -
Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing by Lee Edelman 9781478015970
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the... -
Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies by Kent L. Brintnall
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the... -
Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor by Author So Mayer 9780814348529
Booksplease Price: £33.46Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds... -
Mothers Of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor So Mayer 9780814348536
Booksplease Price: £91.14Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds... -
Crosscurrents: On the Edge of Apocalypse: Volume 68, Number 2, June 2018 by Charles Henderson 9781469666976
Booksplease Price: £20.33CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion... -
Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory by Lorenzo Bernini 9783319433608
Booksplease Price: £93.46This book is an attempt to save "the sexual" from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism... -
Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory by Lorenzo Bernini 9783319828022
Booksplease Price: £92.13This book is an attempt to save "the sexual" from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism... -
Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry by John Vincent 9780312294977
Booksplease Price: £46.74Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Vincent uses formal concerns, difficulty and closure, to discuss innovations... -
Queering the Second Wave: Volume 41 by Lisa Downing
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96'Queering the Second Wave' considers the works and ideas of feminists including Monique Wittig, Shulamith Firestone, Andrea Dworkin, Marilyn Frye, Donna Haraway, Gloria Anzaldua, and Cherrie Moraga... -
Bad Object by Elizabeth Weed 9780822368786
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Before her death in 2001, Naomi Schor was a leading scholar in feminist and critical theory and a founding coeditor of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. This issue takes as its... -
An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly by Will Stockton
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay... -
Reading Sedgwick by Lauren Berlant
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and... -
Reading Sedgwick by Lauren Berlant 9781478005001
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and... -
Sex, or the Unbearable by Lauren Berlant
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose... -
Cool Men and the Second Sex by Susan Fraiman
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in... -
Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia by Gila Ashtor
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award 2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita,... -
Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia by Gila Ashtor 9780823294169
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £73.60Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award 2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita,... -
Aesthetic Subjects by Pamela Matthews 9780816639939
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54Demonstrates the remarkable resurgence of interest in the aestheticRecent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning... -
Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility by Corey McEleney 9780823272655
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the... -
Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility by Corey McEleney 9780823272662
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the... -
Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions by Michael D. Snediker
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Michael Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms... -
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction by Steven Swarbrick 9780810147195
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism's emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, Negative Life:... -
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film by Ellis Hanson
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the "politics of representation" has been the... -
Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory by Valerie Rohy 9780199340200
Booksplease Price: £38.56Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in etiology -- that is, in the cause of homosexuality, whether choice, "recruitment," or biology. Reading... -
The Deconstruction of Sex by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex... -
The Explanation For Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity by Paul Morrison 9780814756737
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £38.42"The claim 'I'm straight' is the psychosexual analogue of 'The check is in the mail': if you need to say it, your credit or creditability is already in doubt." So begins Paul Morrison's dazzling... -
Queer(ing) Gender in Italian Women's Writing: Maraini, Sapienza, Morante by Maria Morelli 9781788741750
RRP: £50.05Booksplease Price: £48.01QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN'S WRITING is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis of Italian women's writing. Focusing especially... -
The Explanation For Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity by Paul Morrison
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70"The claim 'I'm straight' is the psychosexual analogue of 'The check is in the mail': if you need to say it, your credit or creditability is already in doubt." So begins Paul Morrison's dazzling... -
The Deconstruction of Sex by Jean-Luc Nancy 9781478013426
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex... -
Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics: From Norm to Desire Luiz Valle Junior 9781032543802
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics is a consideration of the relationship between LGBTQIA+ politics, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory.The book argues, through... -
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Politics and Pedagogy in the "Post-Truth" Era by Derek R. Ford 9781350164864
Booksplease Price: £35.46Those who are in shock that truth doesn't seem to matter in politics miss the mark: politics has never corresponded with the truth. Rather, political struggle is about the formulation and... -
Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being by David Marriott 9781503637252
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory,... -
The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo 9781350465671
Booksplease Price: £90.57The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and cultural theory, this book features contributions from a range of prominent... -
The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects by Mari Ruti
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular... -
The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects by Mari Ruti 9780231180900
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular...