In recent years, lesbians and gay men have developed a new,
aggressive style of politics. At the same time, innovative
intellectual energies have made queer theory an explosive field of
study. In "Fear of a Queer Planet", Michael Warner draws on
emerging new queer politics, and shows how queer activists have
come to challenge basic assumptions about the social and political
world. Existing traditions of theory - Marxism, cultural studies,
psychoanalysis, anthropology, legal theory, nationalism, and
antinationalism - have too often presupposed a heterosexual
society, as the essays in this volume demonstrate. "Fear of a Queer
Planet" suggests a new agenda for social theory. It moves beyond
the idea that lesbians and gay men share a minority identity and
special interests and that their issues can be subordinated to more
general social conflicts. Instead, Warner and the other
contributors to this volume show that queer sexualities take many
forms, are the subject of many kinds of conflict and struggles, and
must be taken as a starting point in thinking about cultural
politics. This collection explores the impact of ACT UP, Queer
Nation, multiculturalism, the new religious right, outing,
queerness, postmodernism, and other shifts in the politics of
sexuality. The authors featured speak from different backgrounds of
gender, race, nationality, and discipline. Together, they show how
struggles over sexuality have profound implications for progressive
politics, social theory, and cultural studies. Michael Warner has
written extensively on censorship and the public sphere, the
construction of American literary history, and the social and
political implication of literary theories. He is author of "The
Letter of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in
Eighteenth-Century America" and co-editor of "The Origins of
Literary Studies in America: A Documentary Anthology".
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