The Queer Turn in Feminism

Auteur

Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Translated by Catherine Porter

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At a time when gender and queer theories appear to its American proponents to have exhausted themselves, they are hailed in France as something "new". Yet, more than any area of late 20th-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. A Franco-American scholar, the author uses this particular temporal and intellectual juncture to look again at a certain history and theory of "gender" and "sexuality."

Résumé
Looks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, "American" and "French".