What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? This book responds to these questions by arguing that post-World War II gay male subcultures have fostered their own ways not only of consuming mass culture but of producing it as well.  Meer

Presents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries.  Meer

Prominent participants in the development of queer theory explore the field in relation to their own intellectual itineraries, reflecting on its accomplishments, limitations, and critical potential.  Meer

Explores how particular sexual practices and identifications were normalized while others were outlawed in medieval England. This work demonstrates how intellectual inquiry into pre-modern societies can contribute invaluably to contemporary issues in cultural studies.  Meer

Published in English for the first time, Didier Eribon' s well-received and celebrated work on a philosophy of and examination of gay life  Meer

Contemplates the contradictions of individual identity from within a human body adapting to and living within a collective national culture. The author delves into issues such as canon formation, poetic theory, and the rhetoric of the body in American popular culture.  Meer

Focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution.  Meer

Argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts.  Meer