Graphic Guides Queer: A Graphic History, (Paperback)

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Graphic Novel: This paperback is a non-fiction graphic novel titled "Queer: A Graphic History."
Author Details: Authored by Icon Books, with contributions from activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele.
Publication Information: Published on September 8, 2016, it contains 176 pages.
ISBN Identifier: The book's International Standard Book Number is 9781785780714.
Explores Queer History: It illuminates the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action, examining how views on sex, gender, and sexuality developed.
Key Concepts: The graphic novel explores identity politics, gender roles, privilege, and exclusion, and how these ideas intertwine with culture, biology, psychology, and sexology.
Perspective Shifts: It highlights key landmarks that challenge conventional perspectives, such as Alfred Kinsey's sexuality spectrum and Judith Butler's view of gendered behavior as performance.

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Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
Comics & Graphic Novels
Publication date
November, 2016
Pages
176
Reading level
General

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'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' Vice

Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules 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.

Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking.