Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Preface v
4. 1 The Social construction of same-sex desire: sin, crime, sickness 1
5. 2 Assimilation or Liberation, Sexeuality or gender? 22
6. 3 Queer: A Question of being or a question of doing? 37
7. 4 Queer race 57
8. 5 Performance, Performativity, Parody, and Politics 81
9. 6 Transsexual empires and transgender warriors 99
10. 7 Queerins 'straight' sex 119
11. 8 Community and its Discontents 136
12. 9 Sadomasochism as resistance? 151
13. 10 Fetishism(s) and the politics of perversion 168
14. 11 Queering popular culture 189
15. Bibliography 207
16. Index 225