The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work: identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. The chapters gathered together here, by distinguished and emerging scholars who are based in a wide range of international locations, put the terms 'queer' and 'theory' under interrogation in an effort to map the relations and disjunctions between them. The contributors are especially attendant to the many theoretical discourses intersecting with queer theory: feminist theory, LGBT studies, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, disability studies, Marxism, poststructuralism, critical race studies and posthumanism to name a few. This Reader provides an up to the minute snapshot of queer scholarship from the past two decades, identifies many current directions queer theorising is taking, while also signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable and authoritative resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom.