Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Bruce Erickson

Queer Ecologies

Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
Herausgeber: Erickson, Bruce; Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lively conversation about sexuality, nature, and environment

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780253222039
• ISBN-10: 0253222036
• Artikelnr.: 28521724

Autorenporträt

Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands is Professor of Environmental Studies and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture at York University. She is author of The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy. Bruce Erickson is a post-doctoral fellow in Environmental History at Nipissing University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
and Bruce Erickson
Part 1. Against Nature? Queer Sex, Queer Animality
1. Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of "Queer" Animals /
Stacy Alaimo
2. Enemy of the Species / Ladelle McWhorter
3. Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary Environmental
Reproductive Justice / Noël Sturgeon
4. Queernaturecultures / David Bell
Part 2. Green, Pink, and Public: Queering Environmental Politics
5. Non-white Reproduction and Same-Sex Eroticism: Queer Acts against Nature
/ Andil Gosine
6. From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian
Alternative Environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger
7. Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and
Eco-Normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro
8. Undoing Nature: Coalition Building as Queer Environmentalism / Katie
Hogan
9. Fragments, Edges, and Matrices: Retheorizing the Formation of a
So-called Gay Ghetto through Queering Landscape Ecology / Gordon Brent
Ingram
Part 3. Desiring Nature? Queer Attachments
10. "The Place, Promised, That Has Not Yet Been": The Nature of Dislocation
and Desire in Adrienne Rich's Your Native Land/Your Life and Minnie Bruce
Pratt's Crime against Nature / Rachel Stein
11. "fucking close to water": Queering the Production of the Nation / Bruce
Erickson
12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
13. Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer
Desire / Dianne Chisholm
List of Contributors
Index