The SAGE Handbook of Queer Studies: Volume 1: Foundations, Emergence and Consolidations

The Sage Handbook of Queer Studies: Volume One, Foundations, Emergence and Consolidations provides a wide-ranging, globally attentive overview of the contemporary field of Queer Studies, offering readers an analytical grounding in how social worlds shape queer identities and experiences.Recognising that no single text can be exhaustive, this volume assembles a major collection of scholarship that clarifies the scope and limits of disciplinary approaches, while also making the case for a more explicitly transdisciplinary understanding of sexualities.Across its chapters, Queer Studies is approached neither as "only" cultural studies nor as a narrow set of empirical facts, but as a field that requires humanistic, sociological, and political explanation in tandem. This first volume begins by tracing the emergence and consolidation of Queer studies within the academy, foregrounding the inseparable relationship between queer experience, activism, and the growth of scholarly legitimacy.It sho