Queer : a graphic history / by ​ Meg-John Barker ; Julia Scheele.

ProQuest Ebook Central Purchased.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI. Available via World Wide Web.
Chiefly illustrations.
Also issued online.

Includes bibliographical references (page 174)

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; How to Introduce Queer Theory; Who are You?; Making Things Perfectly Queer; Where We're Headed; What is "Queer"?; "Queer" Meaning Strange; "Queer" as Hate Speech; Reclaiming "Queer"; Queer Umbrella?; Queerer Umbrella?; Queering Queer; Multiple Meanings of Queer; Queer Interventions; What Queer has in Common: Anti-identity Politics; How We Came to Think this Way about Sex: A (Very) Potted History; Understandings are Always Contextual; The Early Sexologists; Open and Closed Doors: Early Sexological Understandings; Freud; Open and Closed Doors: Freud's Theories.
Masters and Johnson and Sex TherapyOpen and Closed Doors: Early Sex Therapy; Gay Rights Movement; Open and Closed Doors: Early Gay Rights Movements; How We Think about Sex; Key Assumption 1: Identities are Fixed and Essential; Key Assumption 2: Sexuality and Gender are Binary; Key Assumption 3: Normal and Abnormal Sex Can Usefully be Distinguished; Enter Queer Theory; Precursors to Queer Theory; The Existentialists; Sartre's Homosexual; De Beauvoir; Becoming; Kinsey: Sexual Diversity; Kinsey: Categories are an Invention; Kinsey's Legacy; Simon and Gagnon's Sexual Scripts; Bem's Androgyny.
Black FeministsMultiple Identities and Marginalization; Rich's Compulsory Heterosexuality; (De)Constructing Compulsory Heterosexuality; Wittig's Straight Mind; Crenshaw's Intersectionality; Rubin's Thinking Sex; The Sex Hierarchy; The Domino Theory; Gay Rights/​Queer Activism; After Stonewall; Hiv/​Aids and Activism; Queer Agendas; The Turn to Post-structuralism; Post -structuralism 101; Occupying Our Identity; Subjectivity; Queer Theory is Born; De Lauretis; Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow?; Key Features; Foucault and Butler; Michel Foucault; The Panopticon; Self-monitoring Society.
Neoliberal Consumer CapitalismPower; Bodies and Normality; Docile
and Insecure
Bodies; Discourses and Technologies of the Self; Power Relations; Judith Butler; The Category of Woman; What Butler Saw; The Assumptions of Identity Politics; The Heterosexual Matrix; Challenging the Heterosexual Matrix; Gender Performativity; Doing Gender; Gender Trouble; Foucault and Butler Recap; Foucauldian-butlerian Resistance; Heteronormativity; Heteronormativity, Homophobia, and Heterosexism; ... Oh My!; Straight Privilege; Problems with Privilege; Other Normativities; Interrogating Heteronormativity.
Inside/​OutComing Out; Sedgwick: How to Bring Your Kids up Gay; The Epistemology of the Closet; Nature/​Nurture; Assumed Norms; Queer Beyond Sexuality and Gender; Queer Engagements; Focus on Texts; Discourse Analysis; Playing with Language; Queering; Queer Moments; Camp; Halberstam and Low Theory; "Dude, Where's My Gender?"; Collectivism in Finding Nemo; Queer Art; Guerrilla Tactics; Queer Biology; Nature/​Nurture; The Heteronormative Gaze of Science; Evolution's Rainbow and Biological Exuberance; Sexing the Body; Delusions of Gender; Biopsychosocial; Sexual Configurations; Critical Sexology.

Barker and Scheele invite you to question the status quo and to start seeing things more queerly.
"Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal'--Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler's view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media."--Publisher description.