Queer ecologies : sex, nature, politics, desire

Sandilands, Catriona. (Added Author). Erickson, Bruce. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9780253222039 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0253354838 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780253354839 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0253222036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: x, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: a genealogy of queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson -- Eluding capture: the science, culture, and pleasure of "queer" animals / Stacy Alaimo -- Enemy of the species / Ladelle McWhorter -- Penguin family values: the nature of planetary environmental reproductive justice / Noël Sturgeon -- Queernaturecultures / David Bell -- Non-white reproduction and same-sex eroticism: queer acts against nature / Andil Gosine -- From jook joints to sisterspace: the role of nature in lesbian alternative environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger -- Polluted politics? Confronting toxic discourse, sex panic, and eco-normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Undoing nature: coalition building as queer environmentalism / Katie Hogan -- Fragments, edges, and matrices: retheorizing the formation of a so-called gay ghetto through queering landscape ecology / Gordon Brent Ingram -- "The place, promised, that has not yet been": the nature of dislocation and desire in Adrienne Rich's Your native land/your life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against nature / Rachel Stein -- "fucking close to water": queering the production of the nation / Bruce Erickson -- Melancholy natures, queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Biophilia, creative involution, and the ecological future of queer desire / Dianne Chisholm.