Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)

Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)

<div>Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop-culture, film, activism and academia guide us on a journey through the ideas, people and events that have shaped ‘queer theory’.<BR><BR>From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, <I>Queer</I> explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.<BR><BR>Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what’s ‘normal’, such as Alfred Kinsey’s view of sexuality as a spectrum between heterosexuality and homosexuality, Judith Butler’s view of gendered behavior as a performance, the play <I>Wicked,</I> which reinterprets characters from <I>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,</I> or moments in <I>Casino Royale</I> when we’re invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media.</div>