Queersexlife: Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity

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A frank and personal collection of essays which explores the politics of gender, identity, race and queer sex. Author Terry Goldie, an out gay academic, delves into subjects both fraught and explicit, including drag and dinge queens, feminism, cross-cultural sex and the homosexual child, all with a perceptive and provocative eye. His writings expand and deepen readers' understandings of the parameters and ramifications of queer sexuality, in all its forms.

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Is bisexuality an identity Does the penis always rule How does the desiring anus work Why do we still bother with sexual orientation Is identity useful when it comes to the sexual These and other contemporary concerns in Critical Sexuality Studies provide the focus for "queersexlife". If you like your theory complex, rich and built from the bottom up, you'll like Goldie's gentle, wry and persuasive approach. Most importantly, he reminds us that without objectification there can be no desire, but without subjectification there can be no pleasure.
--GARY W. DOWSETT, PhD, La Trobe University, Melbourne--GARY W. DOWSETT "Gary W. Dowsett "

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Terry Goldie is the author of two previous non-fiction books, and the editor of the anthology In a Queer Country: Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001). He is a professor of English at York University in Toronto, where he teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures with particular interest in gay studies, literary theory, and cinema.