Queering the Non/human

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Noreen Giffney, Myra J. Hird
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - Social Science - 384 pages
This interdisciplinary collection gathers together essays by international pioneering scholars in queer theory, critical theory, cultural studies and science studies who have written on topics as diverse as Christ, antichrist, dogs, starfish, werewolves, vampires, cartoons, the death drive and the 'queer' in queer theory.
 

Contents

Levinasian Ethics
10
How Queer Can You Go? Theory Normality and Normativity
17
Incestuous Beginnings
35
The Death Drive and the Human
55
The Antichrists Gay Wedding
79
Christs Humanities
111
Queer Theory Meets Environmental
137
The Werewolf as Queer the Queer as Werewolf
159
Lessons From a Starfish
249
Penguin Love
265
The Nanoengineering of Desire
283
Queer Causation and the Ethics of Mattering
311
Necrosexuality
339
An Unfinished Conversation About Glowing
363
Index
377
Copyright

Animal Trans
227

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