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What is Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures) about?

Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U.S. In television shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy , and movies like Brokeback Mountain , as well as gay young adult novels and other media coverage of queer peopleincluding the outing of several prominent Republicansqueer lives are becoming more visible in the media and in U.S. culture more generally. How does the increasing visibility of queer subjects within mainstream culture affect possibilities for radical and transformative queer activism? Provocative and challenging, W. C. Harris argues that rather than simply being a cause for celebration, this mainstreaming of queer lives may have as many negative effects as positive ones for contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Harris builds on the work of queer and political theorists such as Eve Sedgwick, David Halperin, Michael Warner, and Wendy Brown to examine the side effects that can be generated when queers assimilate, and argues for a reinvigorated queer essentialism in order to claim a separate and visible political and activist space within U.S. culture.

Author

William Conley Harris

Publisher

Albany: State University of New York Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438427676

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Gender Studies