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Queer Theory Books
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,190 ratings — published 1989
Epistemology of the Closet (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,313 ratings — published 1990
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,298 ratings — published 2004
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,967 ratings — published 2009
The Queer Art of Failure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,024 ratings — published 2011
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,788 ratings — published 2006
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,324 ratings — published 1976
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,813 ratings — published 1993
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 958 ratings — published 1999
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,349 ratings — published 2004
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,295 ratings — published 2007
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,212 ratings — published 2005
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,228 ratings — published 2007
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,484 ratings — published 1999
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,747 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 — 3,000 ratings — published 2008
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 721 ratings — published 2002
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 373 ratings — published 2007
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,819 ratings — published 2008
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,056 ratings — published 1984
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,541 ratings — published 1999
Queer Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 686 ratings — published 1996
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 366 ratings — published 2003
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 38,457 ratings — published 1993
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,290 ratings — published 2004
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,517 ratings — published 2006
Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 242 ratings — published 2009
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 20,149 ratings — published 2020
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,421 ratings — published 2016
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,635 ratings — published 2015
The Straight Mind: And Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,775 ratings — published 1980
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,150 ratings — published 2011
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities)
by (shelved 21 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 286 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 — 6,393 ratings — published 1994
Homosexual Desire (Series Q)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 249 ratings — published 1972
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 600 ratings — published 2003
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture)
by (shelved 19 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 645 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 4.00 — 605 ratings — published 2014
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,596 ratings — published 1984
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 844 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
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,480 ratings — published 1980
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,185 ratings — published 2011
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,755 ratings — published 1987
Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,242 ratings — published 2002
Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,591 ratings — published 2020
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 984 ratings — published 2013
Feminist, Queer, Crip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as queer-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,094 ratings — published 2013
“Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic beverages. In this way, presentation, when considered for the purpose of legibility feels futile... As long as I am subjected to this unconsented reading of my body, I will desire nothing more than facelessness”
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
“Heightened data competence can therefore ensure data is used to improve the lives and experiences of LGBTQ people rather than only serve the interests of, what Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein described as, the three S's: science (universities), surveillance (governments), and selling (corporations).”
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action











