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CULTURAL CONNECTIONS:
KEY THINKERS AND QUEER THEORY
A New Academic Book Series @ the University of
Wales Press
Co-Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
SERIES EDITORS: Noreen Giffney &
Michael O'Rourke
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Series Advisory
Board
Sara Ahmed
Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Annamarie Jagose
University of Auckland,
New Zealand
Patricia MacCormack
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Robert McRuer
George Washington University,
USA
Susan Stryker
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Nikki Sullivan
Macquarie University, Australia
Series Rationale
The Cultural Connections: Key Thinkers and Queer Theory series includes new and innovative
work on critical, ethical and political theory and the study of gender and sexuality. The series promotes research which (a)
analyses the theoretical output and key ideas of various influential figures in critical theory, philosophy and identity studies
which productively intersects with, underpins and is informed by queer theory; (b) the inter-relationships between queer theory
and a range of other theoretical schools of thought, projects or methodologies; and (c) the importance of queer theory for
thinking about a number of key critical and theoretical concepts.
Series Objectives
1. To produce
substantial, accessible monographs devoted to considering a range of difficult thinkers, the methodologies they employ and
the concepts they use.
2. To emphasise the interdisciplinarity and connectivity of queer theory.
3. To intervene in
current debates and ruminate upon the state of queer theory on the contemporary critical landscape.
4. To provide books
that will be useful for research and teaching purposes.
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Books Published in the Series
The Cultural
Connections book series consists of sole-authored books of 75,000-85,000 words. It is intended specifically, although not
exclusively, for academics, postgraduates and undergraduates. Books published in the series make critical interventions into
the fields of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory and cultural studies. All books in the series
are published simultaneously in hardback and paperback. In terms of organisation, authors chart the current state of queer
theory as it pertains to the topic of their monograph, before asking why it is important to look at a certain figure. The
bulk of each book explores the thinker under purview’s key ideas, methods and concepts in a series of substantial chapters,
after which authors speculate about where we might go next. Each book ends with a short but substantive list of suggestions
for further reading.
A primary aim of the Cultural Connections series is to ensure that the reputations of the thinkers
under scrutiny will endure and that these figures will continue to exert an influence on queer theory and gender and sexuality
studies. It is the intention of this series to keep queer theory vibrant and alive by devoting monographs to the most important
social, political and cultural thinkers who have exerted and
promise to exert an influence on its shape. The series objective
is to produce books which will be accessibly written while also dealing with complex thinkers and ideas which have not been
adequately treated up to now within the fields of queer theory and gender and sexuality studies. Above all, books published
in the series will endeavour to push the field of queer theory and thinking on gender and sexuality in new directions.
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Contact the Series Editors
All books
in the series are commissioned by the series editors. They are currently accepting expressions of interest from potential
authors. The series editors can be contacted in the first instance via email: noreen.giffney@gmail.com and tranquilised_icon@yahoo.com
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TO CONTACT THE SERIES EDITORS:
Copyright Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke 2007
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