Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Barker, Meg-John, 1974-

Publication

• London, UK : Icon Books Ltd, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Scheele, Jules, 1984-

Description

175 pages : chiefly illustrations; 26 cm

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. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop-culture, film, activism and academia guide us on a journey through the ideas, people and events that have shaped queer "theory". 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", such as Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum between heterosexuality and homosexuality, Judith Butler's view of gendered behavior as a performance, the play Wicked, which reinterprets characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 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."--Amazon.com.
• Though not a graphic novel, this high 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.

Subjects

• Medicine
• Medicine > Comic books, strips, etc
• Illustrated works
• COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > Nonfiction
• Gender identity
• Comics (Graphic works)
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > LGBT Studies > Gay Studies
• Pictorial works
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies
• Nonfiction comics
• COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > LGBT
• Comic books, strips, etc
• Queer theory > Pictorial works
• Queer theory > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Comic books, strips, etc.
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Illustrated works.
• Nonfiction comics.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 174).

Call Number

JFF 17-856

ISBN

• 9781785780714
• 1785780719

OCLC

939427299

Author

Barker, Meg-John, 1974- author.

Title

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

Publisher

London, UK : Icon Books Ltd, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 174).

Added Author

Scheele, Jules, 1984- author.

Research Call Number

JFF 17-856