A01=Ben Nichols
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Ben Nichols
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DS
Category=DSBH
Category=JBSF
Category=JFSJ
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Language_English
normativity
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
queer history
queer theory
reductionism
reproduction
sameness
softlaunch
uselessness
Product details
- ISBN 9781526163813
- Weight: 277g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to ‘difference’, queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to ‘sameness’ only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus – uselessness, reproduction, normativity and reductionism – and reveals their unexpected formal and thematic importance to a range of queer literary genres from across the long twentieth century: fin-de-siècle aestheticism, feminist speculative fiction, lesbian middlebrow writing, and the ‘stud file’ or record of serial sex. Demonstrating how queer cultural objects often stand at odds with the frameworks that have been meant to help interpret and comprehend them, Same old interrogates the genealogy of the aversion to sameness that has kept those frameworks in place.
Ben Nichols is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Manchester
