Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography (Hagiography Beyond Tradition, #2)
Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft is an exciting book of ancient Slavic magical practices. In this book, you'll sit at Baba Yaga's side and listen to her stories about the birth of the sun, the land of the blessed ones, and the spirits that live right beside us. More importantly, you'll learn the secrets of her magic crafts, talismans, inscriptions, incantations, and rituals that will allow you to discover your own Baba Yaga within. Each chapter develops the fairytale of Vasylyna the girl who is s...
Queer Ideas
In the 1980s and early 1990s, popular film presented women characters who were hard, tough and in control. While "Thelma and Louise" blew away rapists, Sigourney Weaver vapourized "Aliens", and the era of the female hero arrived. Despite the overt heterosexuality of both films, Thelma, Louise and Weaver's character, Ripley, all became incredibly popular with lesbians. This study critically embraces psychoanalytic and discourse film theory to explore this phenomenon and to assess its implications...
Sexual Identity on the Job: Issues and Services
by Alan L Ellis and Ellen D Riggle
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. The book makes a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis, via Freud and Lacan, and conducts a critical examination of queer theory's most famous proponents, includin...
The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, drug addicts, and political radicals. But in the next decades, many of these downcast figures would become the architects of new social movements, activists in revolt against institutions, the state, and social constraint. As queer theory gained prominence as a subfield of the humanities in the late 1980s, it seemed to inherit these radical...
