Clare Exile and Pride

Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7487-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Over the course of several personal essays, genderqueer activist/writer Eli Clare weaves together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home, all the while providing an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually experience the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clare, Eli

Weitere Mitwirkende

Morales, Aurora Levins

Spade, Dean

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to the 2015 Edition / Aurora Levins Morales xi

Preface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later xxi

A Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian? xxvii

The Mountain 1

Part I: Place

Clearcut: Explaining the Distance 17

Losing Home 31

Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers 51

Clear Cut: End of the Line 61

Casino: An Epilogue 71

Part II. Bodies

Freaks and Queers 81

Reading Across the Grain 119

Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart 143

Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition 161

Afterword to the 2009 Edition / Dean Spade 165

Notes 173

Index 179

Über Autor(innen)

Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion. He speaks regularly at universities and conferences throughout the United States about disability, queer identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.