Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies

Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality

Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements.

Many of the keywords featured in this publication call attention to the fundamental assumptions of humanism’s political and intellectual debates—from the racialized contours of property and ownership to eugenicist discourses of improvement and development. Interventions to these frameworks arise out of queer, feminist and anti-racist engagements with matter and ecology as well as efforts to imagine forms of relationality beyond settler colonial and imperialist epistemologies

Reflecting the interdisciplinary breadth of the field, this collection of seventy essays by scholars across the social sciences and the humanities weaves together methodologies from science and technology studies, affect theory, and queer historiographies, as well as Black Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies. Taken together, these essays move alongside the distinct histories and myriad solidarities of the fields to construct the much awaited Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.

The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective includes Kyla Wazana Tompkins (she/her), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at Pomona College, who also served as managing editor; Aren Aizura (he/him), Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota; Aimee Bahng (she/her), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Pomona College; Karma R. Chávez (she/her), Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin; Mishuana Goeman (she/her), Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Professor of Gender Studies, American Indian Studies, and affiliated faculty of Critical Race Studies in the Law School at the University of California, Los Angeles and Amber Jamilla Musser (she/her), Professor of English at the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective includes Kyla Wazana Tompkins (she/her), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at Pomona College, who also served as managing editor; Aren Aizura (he/him), Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota; Aimee Bahng (she/her), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Pomona College; Karma R. Chávez (she/her), Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin; Mishuana Goeman (she/her), Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Professor of Gender Studies, American Indian Studies, and affiliated faculty of Critical Race Studies in the Law School at the University of California, Los Angeles and Amber Jamilla Musser (she/her), Professor of English at the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.

An exhilarating read that sacrifices neither accessibility, depth, nor acuity in its assemblage of keywords. This book is a scholarly and curatorial feat that will be referenced (and enjoyed) widely.