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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 4.2 is now available

Intellect is excited to announce that Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 4.2 is now available!

 

For more information about the issue and journal, click here >> http://www.intellectbooks.com/queer-studies-in-media-popular-culture

 

Aims & Scope

 

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture is devoted to the study of representations and expressions of queerness in its various forms. In this peer-reviewed publication, emphasis is placed on significant trends in various media offerings and forms, consumerism, domestic life, fashion, leisure, politics, spirituality and other noteworthy elements of culture and their connections to minority sexualities and non-traditional gender performance.

 

Issue 4.2

 

Articles

 

Love is love is love is love: From flaktivism to consumer activism in LGBTQ+ communities

Amy M. Corey

 

Going online to be a lesbian: AfterEllen, Vice Versa, The Ladder and queer (?) theorizing in discursive spaces

Josie Rush

 

Assimilation gaming: The reification of compulsory gender roles in RuPaul’s Drag Race

Michael Anthony DeAnda

 

The evolution of LGBT research in Israel 

Amit Kama Classic 

 

Media Review Essay

 

After Sex, Eric Amadio (2007) 

Marisa Thomas

 

Book Reviews

 

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte (eds) (2017)

 

Aaron Raphael Ponce

 

 

Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play, Susanna Paasonen (2018) 

Jaime García-Iglesias

 

RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas (eds) (2017)

Elisa Padilla

 

Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life, Andre Cavalcante (2018)

Kirwan McHarry 

 

Film Review

 

The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos (2018)

James Lawrence Slattery