Queer Ecologies
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Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire

Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire


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Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present a focused engagement with the critical, philosophical, and political dimensions of sex and nature. These discussions are particularly relevant to current debates in many disciplines, including environmental studies, queer theory, critical race theory, philosophy, literary criticism, and politics. As a whole, Queer Ecologies stands as a powerful corrective to views that equate "natural" with "straight" while "queer" is held to be against nature.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction: A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson Part 1. Against Nature? Queer Sex, Queer Animality 1. Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of "Queer" Animals / Stacy Alaimo 2. Enemy of the Species / Ladelle McWhorter 3. Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary Environmental Reproductive Justice / Noël Sturgeon 4. Queernaturecultures / David Bell Part 2. Green, Pink, and Public: Queering Environmental Politics 5. Non-white Reproduction and Same-Sex Eroticism: Queer Acts against Nature / Andil Gosine 6. From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger 7. Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro 8. Undoing Nature: Coalition Building as Queer Environmentalism / Katie Hogan 9. Fragments, Edges, and Matrices: Retheorizing the Formation of a So-called Gay Ghetto through Queering Landscape Ecology / Gordon Brent Ingram Part 3. Desiring Nature? Queer Attachments 10. "The Place, Promised, That Has Not Yet Been": The Nature of Dislocation and Desire in Adrienne Rich's Your Native Land/Your Life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against Nature / Rachel Stein 11. "fucking close to water": Queering the Production of the Nation / Bruce Erickson 12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands 13. Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer Desire / Dianne Chisholm List of Contributors Index

About the Author :
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands is Professor of Environmental Studies and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture at York University. She is author of The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy. Bruce Erickson is a post-doctoral fellow in Environmental History at Nipissing University.

Review :
"Corrects the heteronormative bias that influenced environmental literature from the beginning and challenges the rigid distinctions between nature and culture." Deane Curtin, Gustavus Adolphus College "A carefully crafted and well-executed volume, this collection intervenes in several important contemporary discourses in ecology, eco-politics, and queer theory, as well as more longstanding discourses of science and history." Shannon Winnubst, Ohio State University "[V]ibrant texts, brimming with possibilities for rethinking, rereading, and reinflecting the links between perception, ontology, epistemology, politics, and ethics. ... [A]llow[s] for the possibility of further reflections on the material conditions of intellectual inquiry, and for what materialities our 'immaterial labors' might creatively enact, change, transform."--Women's Studies Quarterly


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253222039
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 424
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 590 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0253222036
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jul 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
  • Width: 152 mm


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