127 books
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Queer Theory Books
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,841 ratings — published 1989
Epistemology of the Closet (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,293 ratings — published 1990
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,282 ratings — published 2004
The Queer Art of Failure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,960 ratings — published 2011
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,941 ratings — published 2009
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,747 ratings — published 2006
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,963 ratings — published 1976
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,783 ratings — published 1993
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 950 ratings — published 1999
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,327 ratings — published 2004
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,200 ratings — published 2005
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,108 ratings — published 2007
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,281 ratings — published 2007
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,479 ratings — published 1999
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,728 ratings — published 1998
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,915 ratings — published 2008
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 713 ratings — published 2002
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 371 ratings — published 2007
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,736 ratings — published 2008
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,491 ratings — published 1984
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,528 ratings — published 1999
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 37,479 ratings — published 1993
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 364 ratings — published 2003
Queer Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 681 ratings — published 1996
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,292 ratings — published 2004
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,515 ratings — published 2006
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,381 ratings — published 2016
Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 238 ratings — published 2009
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,958 ratings — published 2015
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 19,814 ratings — published 2020
The Straight Mind: And Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,699 ratings — published 1980
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,137 ratings — published 2011
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 279 ratings — published 2009
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 206 ratings — published 1993
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,378 ratings — published 1994
Homosexual Desire (Series Q)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 246 ratings — published 1972
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 644 ratings — published 1985
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 247 ratings — published 2005
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 606 ratings — published 2014
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 597 ratings — published 2003
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,570 ratings — published 1984
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 841 ratings — published 2004
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 357 ratings — published 2003
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,180 ratings — published 2011
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,626 ratings — published 1987
The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 69 ratings — published 2009
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,242 ratings — published 2002
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 982 ratings — published 2013
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,431 ratings — published 1980
Feminist, Queer, Crip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,074 ratings — published 2013
“If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs more queering and fewer cops.”
― Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
― Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
“What is repressed is never, of course, annihilated: it will always strive to return, in disguised forms, in dreams, or as neurotic symptoms. If Freud was correct—and I see no reason to suppose otherwise—we should expect to find the traces of repressed homosexuality in every film, just as we should expect to find them in every person, usually lurking beneath the surface, occasionally rupturing it, informing in various ways the human relationships depicted.”
― Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
― Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan











