A Queer Theory of the State

By Samuel Huneke NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A Queer Theory of the State is about the inability of queer theory – and, in a broader sense, modern progressivism and liberalism – to effectively imagine a better future.

Anatomy’s queer working images, or My queer eye for the anatomical guy

By Michael Sappol NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Anatomies is about perverse desire and pleasure in anatomy. Queers queering anatomy.

Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World

By James Cates NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Amish sexuality through the lens of Queer theory.

The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature

By Christine Varnado Early Modern, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading.

Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love

By Joanna Bourke Animal Sexuality, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How have commentators talked about sex with animals and what meanings have been attached to ‘bestiality’ or ‘zoophilia’?

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande Asian Sexualities, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Queer Encounters in the Garden

By Christopher Fite 20th and 21st Century United States, Religion and Sexuality

A popular 1912 hymn imagines a close encounter with Christ and reveals the queer possibilities within evangelical Protestant liturgy and devotion.