Queer Objects

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    Chris Brickell, Judith Collard (eds.)

    Publisher: Rutgers University Press

    Year: 2019

    Format: Paperback

    Size: 250 pages

    ISBN: 9781978801707

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Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, various reminders of state power, as well as the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer?

The sixty-three chapters in Queer Objects consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures, and space. In this unique international collaboration, well-known and newer writers traverse world history to write about fabulous, captivating, and transgressive items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys, and the smartphone.

Table of Contents

1. The Queerness of Objects
CHRIS BRICKELL & JUDITH COLLARD

2. The First Gay Kiss?
RICHARD BRUCE PARKINSON

3. Tutanekai’s Flute
PAERAU WARBRICK

4. Faces of Queer-Aboriginality
DINO HODGE

5. Pasting Together an Identity
HELEN PAUSACKER

6. The Strapless Satchel
JEFFREY VAUGHAN

7. The Queering of Action Man
GREG MINISSALE

8. Reading Two Gay Histories
BEN ANDERSON-NATHE

9. Fragments of Sappho
CHRIS BRICKELL

10. New World Slavery’s Queer Object
CARINA PASQUESI

11. Freda’s Mountaineering Memoir
CHRIS BRICKELL

12. Teddy’s Illustrated Letter
RACHEL HOPE CLEVES

13. Four Saints in Three Acts
TIRZA TRUE LATIMER

14. Donald Friend’s Life in Letters
TIM ROBERTS

15. Dear Dawn, Can I Hold You?
LAUREN BRITTON

16. A Gay Magazine in Communist Poland
LUKASZ SZULC

17. The Cunt Coloring Book
MARGO HOBBS

18. Henry’s Albums
BARRY REAY

19. Sammy’s Stud File
BARRY REAY

20. The Proverbial Lavender Dildo
ERICA RAND

21. Amos’s Chair
BARRY REAY

22. Cruising Masculine Spaces
JUDITH COLLARD

23. The Stuff of Cruising
JOHN HOWARD

24. The Warren Cup
CHRIS BRICKELL

25. Monuments
PETER SHERLOCK

26. Robert Gant’s Shoes
CHRIS BRICKELL

27. Oscar’s Photograph?
NEIL BARTLETT

28. Saint Sebastian
CHRIS BRICKELL

29. Tender Buttons
JANE TRENGROVE

30. The Paintings of Lois White
JUDITH COLLARD

31. The L Word Quilt
AMANDA LITTAUER & DIANE JOHNS

32. The Queen of Polka Holes
KATSUHIKO SUGANUMA

33. Queer Dogs
HEIKE BAUER

34. Our Own Dear House
BEV ROBERTS

35. An Attic Apartment
CHRIS BRICKELL

36. The Rotary Dial Telephone
MATT COOK

37. C734
CHRISTOPHER CASTIGLIA & CHRISTOPHER REED

38. Saint Eugenia’s Relics
ROBERT MILLS

39. A Tram Ticket, an Egyptian and an Englishman
ROBERT ALDRICH

40. To My Friend from His Friend
GRAHAM WILLETT

41. The Story of a Locket
PETER WELLS

42. Till We Meet Again
JO CAMPBELL

43. A Set of Wedding Photos
ELISE CHENIER

44. Carl Wittman and the AIDS Quilt
AMANDA LITTAUER & DIANE JOHNS

45. Exhibit A: The Powder Puff
WAYNE MURDOCH

46. Neil McConaghy’s Penile Plethysmograph
KATE DAVISON

47. A Military Discharge Certificate
SHIRLEENE ROBINSON

48. The Moral Majority is Neither
TIMOTHY WILLEM JONES

48. Devotional Objects
MELISSA M. WILCOX

50. Political Buttons
KATHERINE A. HERMES

51. Plastic Politics
JAMES BURFORD, KATH KHANGPIBOON & 
JUTATHORN PRAVATTIYAGUL

52. Bloomers and Monocles
NIKKI SULLIVAN & CRAIG MIDDLETON

53. A Lesbian Waistcoat
NADIA GUSH

54. Lesbian Lipstick
REINA LEWIS

55. Punk Jacket
MARCUS BUNYAN

56. The Australian Speedo
YORICK SMAAL

57. The World’s First Gay Travel Guide
DANIEL BRANDL-BECK

58. Keith’s Slides
CHRIS BRICKELL

59. John Hunter’s Make-up Box
CHRIS BRICKELL

60. The Portable Lesbian Party
ALISON ORAM

61. The Rangers Motorclub Flag
TIM ROBERTS

62. The Disco Ball and the DJ
PHILIP HUGHES

63. Queer Smartphones
SIMON CLAY

List of Contributors

Notes

Photo References

Index

Tags: anthropology ....... Chris Brickell ....... cultural studies ....... history ....... Judith Collard ....... queer liberation ....... Rutgers University Press ....... trans-gender-queer .......