Domesticity and Queer Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-34709-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Queer Literary, Visual and Material Cultures

asserts the value of domesticity as an object for queer study and a practice of queer survival. As queer theorists confront the ethical and political crises brought on by the uneven normalization of queer life in the twenty-first century, domesticity and the home present key sites for reaffirming queer theory’s commitment to queer and trans people and the complex lives they build. Contributors examine how potluck dinners foster joy in the American South, how an AIDS hospice in San Francisco enables queer kinship and grassroots resistance, how a house-turned-museum in London preserves the ephemeral signs of queer dwelling, how the practice of being a parent unsettles queer theory’s political claims to antinormativity, and the ways domestic life itself affords a powerful mode of queer archival practice, among other topics. charts a new history for the field and offers frameworks for approaching domesticity in the present as an essential part of queer life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shollenberger, Jess

Wilson, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction Sedgwicks Fridge.- Chapter 2: Bring a Mason Jar and Your Full Queer Self Doing Home Living Queerness One Potluck at a Time.- Chapter 3: Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel.- Chapter 4: Still Life Dennis Severss Queer Sense of Dwelling.- Chapter 5: Archives of Queer Domesticity.- Chapter 6: Living Together Theorizing Collective Domesticity.- Chapter 7: The Queerness of Parenting or Almost Everything I Know about Parenting I Learned from Queer Theory.- Chapter 8: Almost Home An Elegy and a Comeback.- Chapter 9: Afterword Doing Queer Domesticity.

Über Autor(innen)

Jess Shollenberger is the author of (2025). They teach English at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Mary Wilson  is Associate Professor of English and Communication at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. She is the author of   (2013) and co-editor of  (2013).