Queer Theory Products

By Simone Chess

This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
Routledge

Edited by Emma Liggins, Elizabeth Nolan

The First World War was a transformative experience for women, facilitating their entry into new spaces and alternative spheres of activity, both on the home front and on the edges of danger zones in Europe and beyond. The centenary of the conflict is an appropriate moment to reassess what we…

Hardback – 2018-08-21
Routledge

By Helen Thornham

Gender and Digital Culture offers a unique contribution to the theoretical and methodological understandings of digital technology as inherently gendered and classed. The silences within, through and from the systems we experience every day, create inequalities that are deeply affective and…

Hardback – 2018-07-30
Routledge

Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the…

Hardback – 2018-06-06
Routledge
Routledge Companions to Gender

Edited by Barry Sheils, Julie Walsh

Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and shorter practice-based reflections from poets…

Hardback – 2018-03-13
Routledge
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Sam McBean

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. It finds in feminism’s literary…

Paperback – 2018-03-09
Routledge
Transformations

Edited by Ana María Sánchez-Arce

This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions identity-form, content-form and body-mind through discussions of the role of the author in the…

Paperback – 2018-02-06
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Edited by Gavin Lee

In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, the alternative analytic of ambiguity has never been systematically examined. While difference　from heterosexual norms is taken to be the multivalent…

Hardback – 2018-02-05
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Corinne L. Mason

Around the world lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer individuals are subjected to violence and intimidation based on their real or perceived sexuality, gender identity or expression. With those most at risk of human rights violations often living in areas of low economic development,…

Hardback – 2018-01-31
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks

By Hannah McCann

Queering Femininity focuses on femininity as a style of gender presentation and asks how (and whether) it can be refigured as a creative and queer style of the body. Drawing on a range of feminist texts and interviews with self-identifying queer femmes from the LGBTQ community, Hannah McCann argues…

Hardback – 2017-12-11
Routledge
Feminism and Female Sexuality

By Michael Patrick Gillespie

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde’s public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Through calculated behavior, provocative language, and arresting dress, Wilde self-consciously created a brand initially recognized by family and friends,…

Hardback – 2017-11-02
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Edited by Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich

The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender. Bringing…

Paperback – 2017-10-23
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary China Series