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Lesbian and Gay Studies - Andy Medhurst, Sally Munt


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Lesbian and Gay Studies - Andy Medhurst, Sally Munt

 
Description: ISBN 0304338826 / Genre: Science / Nature

Newest Review: ... and meaningless where it isn't trivial. Here's one extract: The hybrid formations imagined by Deleuze and Guattari - ... more

 ... not just the pre-oedipal mouth to the breast, but the pollen-seeking bee to the orchid - mean that sexual orientation has no script. There is, in a philosophy influenced by Deleuze and Guattari, no ‘homosexual’ as such. But there is ‘homosexual production’, which, as Guy Hocquenghem writes, ‘takes place according to a mode of non-liminative horizontal relations’ (Hocquenghem, 1978, pg. 95). Reading male homosexuality ‘against Oedipus’, as Deleuze and Guattari have taugh...more

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Premium Review Lesbian and Gay Studies - Andy Medhurst, Sally Munt: Queer Logorrhoea (567 words)
by - written on 17/08/00 (Useful, 109 readings)
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Is there anyone so spiritually dead as to fail to be overcome by a sense of almost transcendent, macro-cosmic awe when standing in the "Studies" section of a university library surrounded by hundreds of metres of shelving filled with books expensively produced from trees whose usefulness would have been infinitely greater and dignity far less insulted had they been turned into lavatory paper? I hope not. This is one of the books you might pull off those hundreds of metres of shelving. It should of course have been called Queer Studies: A Post-Critical Introduction, but the editors say in their introduction that they have difficulties around issues around this ...  Read the complete review

 

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