Queer : a graphic history / Meg-John Barker ; Julia Scheele.

Barker, Meg-John, 1974- (author.). Scheele, Jules, 1984- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 1785780719
ISBN: 9781785780714
ISBN: 9781785780714
ISBN: 1785780719
Physical Description: 175 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm
Publisher: London : Icon Books Ltd, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 174).

Summary, etc.:

"Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal'--Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler's view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media"-- Publisher description.