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Author Barker, Meg-John, 1974- author.

Title Queer : a graphic history / Meg-John Barker ; Julia Scheele.

Publication Info. London : Icon Books Ltd, 2016.
©2016

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 Moore Stacks  HQ76.25 .B373 2016    Available  ---
Description 175 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 174).
Summary "Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal'--Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler's view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media."--Publisher description.
Though not a graphic novel, this highly illustrated nonfiction book explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do. Barker and Scheele show how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Each page focuses on a specific aspect of the subject.
Subject Queer theory -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Queer theory.
Genre/Form Comics (Graphic works)
Subject Queer theory -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Gender identity.
Gender identity.
Genre/Form Nonfiction comics.
Nonfiction comics.
Illustrated works.
Subject Queer theory.
Gender identity.
Genre/Form Graphic novels.
Graphic novels.
Comics (Graphic works)
Illustrated works.
Added Author Scheele, Jules, 1984- author.
ISBN 1785780719 (paperback)
9781785780714 (paperback)