Queer Theory, Historicism, and Early Modern Sexualities

Sexualities and public policies: a queer approach for times of democratic crisis

This work aims to understand a public policy of health equity related to sexualities that deviate from compulsory heterosexuality in a context of democratic crisis. For this, queer theory is used to analyze, in the light of categories such as power, resistance and transgression, what lies behind the discursive context of the health care policies of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and transgender (L...

Queer Melayu: Queer Sexualities and the Politics of Malay Identity and Nationalism in Contemporary Malaysian Literature and Culture

Global Queering andGlobal Queer Theory: Thai [Trans]genders and [Homo]sexualities inWorld History

Since the early 1990s, many authors [e.g. Plummer, 1992; Altman, 1996a, 1996b, 1997, 2001; Drucker, 2000; Jackson, 2000] have identified the transnational proliferation of new same-sex and transgender identities and cultures as a significant instance of cultural globalisation. In 1992, Plummer wrote, “Homosexualities have become globalised”. [Plummer, 1992: 17] Altman has labeled this phenomeno...

Queerying borders: an Afrikan activist perspective.

This article offers an overview of academic work that focuses on queer sexualities in Africa and argues that binary categories, particularly those imported from outside Africa, are not adequate for addressing African sexualities.

[Who teaches queer: the prospect of queer theory analysis in the health education process].

The scope of this essay is to reflect on the possibilities of inclusion of a queer analytical body to the processes of education in the health field. This is because the development of the Unified Health System, with its new set of health practices has revealed challenges that include broadening the knowledge set especially required for revitalization of the notion of subject. Queer theory is n...