DANGEROUS LIAISONS: QUEER SUBJECTIVITY, LIBERALISM AND RACE.
The emergence of queer theory has posed an incipient and significant challenge to the essentialism which has typically characterized theories of sexuality. In an attempt to eschew the totalizing effects of the categories 'gay' and 'lesbian', queer theorists advocate a subjectivity which celebrates s...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 91 - 110 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan1999
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