Queer ecologies : sex, nature, politics, desire /

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 ran...

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Other Authors: Sandilands, Catriona, Erickson, Bruce
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2010
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a genealogy of queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson
  • Eluding capture: the science, culture, and pleasure of "queer" animals / Stacy Alaimo
  • Enemy of the species / Ladelle McWhorter
  • Penguin family values: the nature of planetary environmental reproductive justice / Noël Sturgeon
  • Queernaturecultures / David Bell
  • Non-white reproduction and same-sex eroticism: queer acts against nature / Andil Gosine
  • From jook joints to sisterspace: the role of nature in lesbian alternative environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger
  • Polluted politics? Confronting toxic discourse, sex panic, and eco-normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro
  • Undoing nature: coalition building as queer environmentalism / Katie Hogan
  • Fragments, edges, and matrices: retheorizing the formation of a so-called gay ghetto through queering landscape ecology / Gordon Brent Ingram
  • "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
  • "fucking close to water": queering the production of the nation / Bruce Erickson
  • Melancholy natures, queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
  • Biophilia, creative involution, and the ecological future of queer desire / Dianne Chisholm.