The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies

Name: The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans StudiesAuthor(s): Mark Rifkin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009435666, 978-1009435666\nSynopsis\nThe book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretching from early figures (such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Cathy Cohen, Jos Muoz, and Sandy Stone) to the most recent scholarship, it offers a rich account of these fields' major ideas and contributions while indicating how they have evolved. Centering race and empire, the book offers extended discussion of work in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American studies as well as engaging the Global South. The Introduction further addresses historical considerations of sexuality and gender identity, and queer and trans temporalities, while also providing a robust account of social and political movements that preceded the em.