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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication

Beschreibung

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication offers an up-to-date collection of essays written by leading academics from regions around the world, revisiting established vocabularies and perspectives, introducing emergent research areas, and attending to queer communicative phenomena beyond English-speaking and Western contexts The articles spotlight further readings that will complement and guide readers interested in deepening their understandings of the issues.

Autor

Isaac West is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. Professor West's research focuses primarily on legal rhetorics and their role in constituting us as citizens of states, nations, and the world. His first book, Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law (NYU Press, 2014), engages trans advocacy and activism to demonstrate how these citizenship claims can queer legal norms and conventions. Transforming Citizenships was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. Professor West has also written related essays about centrality of gender and sexuality to our understanding of citizenship, including how bakers have employed religious freedom as a justification for not treating everyone equally, the ethics and appropriateness of employing "like race" analogies in queer advocacy, and how coming out narratives are produced and mean different things to different audiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 2112
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 298mm x 240mm x 91mm
• Gewicht: 2806g
• ISBN-13: 9780190099671
• ISBN-10: 0190099674
• Artikelnr.: 68060986