Queer Theories

Queer Theories explores and aggressively expands the provocative new field of sexual identity studies. It covers the history of the terms gay and lesbian as identity categories the reclamation of the word queer as a term of radical self-identification and the recent challenges to sexual identity studies posed by transgender and bisexual theories. Donald E. Hall also offers concrete applications of the abstract theories that he explores with imaginative new readings of works such as The Yellow Wallpaper Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Orlando and The Color Purple.