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Difference troubles : queering social theory and sexual politics


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Summary: Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize differences such as gender, race, and sexuality, without reducing them to an inferior status. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, presented with Seidman's familiar imagination and clarity. In addition, it argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to difference troubles in theory and politics.

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Introduction: the contemporary reconfiguring of social theory

The political unconscious of the human sciences

The end of sociological theory

Relativizing sociology: the challenge of cultural studies

The refusal of sexual difference: queering sociology

Difference troubles: the flight of sociology from "otherness"

Identity and politics in a "postmodern" gay culture

Deconstructing queer theory, or some difficulties in a theory and politics of difference

Transfiguring identity: AIDS and the cultural politics of sexuality and homosexuality, 1981-1986

From gay ethnicity to queer politics: the renewal of gay radicalism in the United States

Postmodern anxiety: the politics of epistemology


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