The Routledge Queer Studies Reader (Routledge Literature Readers)

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.

The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents:

• individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts
• essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders
• writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, José Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed.

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.

• Queer: A Graphic History
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
• A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
• When The Chant Comes
• If They Come for Us: Poems
• Queer Theory: An Introduction
• Queer Theory, Gender Theory
• The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
• Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today's Revolution
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)