A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

Preface v The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness 1(21) Assimilation or Liberation, Sexuality or Gender? 22(15) Queer: A Question of Being or A Question of Doing? 37(20) Queer Race 57(24) Performance, Performativity, Parody, and Politics 81(18) Transsexual Empires and Transgender Warriors 99(20) Queering `Straight' Sex 119(17) Community and its Discontents 136(15) Sadomasochism as Resistance? 151(17) Fetishism(s) and the Politics of Perversion 168(21) Queering Popular Culture 189(18) Bibliography 207(18) Index 225