The Gay 90s

Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies

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Edited by Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel and Ellen E. Berry

New York University Press

Due/Published September 1997, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 0814726739

Queer theory arose as a challenge to the stability of sexual categories. But is queer theory in the 1990s in danger of becoming just another category of theoretical inquiry and just another academic discipline? This collection asks about the dangers and the opportunities that have arisen and are arising as queer studies is being legitimated within American universities. The first section of the book reflect upon the process of disciplinary formation as it affects lesbian and gay studies in the academy, contrasting older academic disciplines with newer, identity-based areas of study. The second section demonstrates the extent to which contemporary queer studies involves practices of interdisciplinary reading and analysis. Contributors include Dennis Allen, John Champagne, Myriam, J. A. Chancy, Gabrielle N. Dean, Leigh Gilmore, Calvin Thomas, Elayne Tobin, Robyn Wiegman, and Thomas Yingling.