{"product_id":"9781474247528-writing-queer-history","title":"Writing Queer History","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIntroduces and surveys the ways in which historians and others have researched and written about the lesbian, gay and ‘queer’ past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriting Queer History \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplores the remarkable and various ways in which historians and others have contended with the queer past.\u003c\/b\u003e From the radical ferment of the 1960s and the emergence of lesbian and gay history, the book charts a course to the culture wars and queer history of our present day.  How have LGBT and queer historians responded to their cultural and political contexts, to broader and shifting historical practices, and to queer and other theoretical perspectives? How have they navigated sources, fragments, gaps and silences? And what has their work revealed and achieved? \u003cbr\u003eIn this state-of-field guide, Matt Cook surveys research and writing from across the last 60 years by activist, community and academic historians, working within and beyond university settings, and across different disciplines and genres. He argues that queer history has been a connective, intersectional and boundary-crossing practice. At its best, it has illuminated broad social, cultural, political and historical dynamics, and multivalent ideas and experiences of desire, identity, and community. \u003cbr\u003eOver five chapters, each with an autobiographical coda, the book shows how the personal is not only political but profoundly historical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41729573814369,"sku":"9781474247528","price":23.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35455865.jpg?v=1771488857","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474247528-writing-queer-history","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}