Susan Henking
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Henking |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Henking |
| SIGNATURE | HENKING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | President Emeritia, Shimer College, Chicago, Illinois and Professor Emeritia, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States
History matters. What happened in the past, how we narrate and understand our histories, what historians do, and how the public understands its histories matter. Living in an ahistorical society is at best troubling and at worst dangerous. The topics addressed in Devotions and Desires each have a history of being understood as standing outside of history and as singular—religion rather than religions, sexuality not sexualities. Across the last ha…
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University – By Kevin Roose
Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses – By Donna Freitas
A Genealogy of Queer Theory
The title of this book reveals much of its agenda. The words genealogy, queer, and theory reveal that it is engaged with Michel Foucault, that its topic is that amorphous movement of post–lesbianandgay civil rights founded upon reclaiming the formerly (and still occasionally) horrific term “queer,” and that its particular focus is upon the academic wing of that movement. In examining these concerns, William B. Turner provides an entrée into the r…
A Genealogy of Queer Theory
The title of this book reveals much of its agenda. The words genealogy, queer, and theory reveal that it is engaged with Michel Foucault, that its topic is that amorphous movement of post–lesbianandgay civil rights founded upon reclaiming the formerly (and still occasionally) horrific term “queer,” and that its particular focus is upon the academic wing of that movement. In examining these concerns, William B. Turner provides an entrée into the r…
A Genealogy of Queer Theory
The title of this book reveals much of its agenda. The words genealogy, queer, and theory reveal that it is engaged with Michel Foucault, that its topic is that amorphous movement of post–lesbianandgay civil rights founded upon reclaiming the formerly (and still occasionally) horrific term “queer,” and that its particular focus is upon the academic wing of that movement. In examining these concerns, William B. Turner provides an entrée into the r…
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University – By Kevin Roose
Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses – By Donna Freitas
Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States
History matters. What happened in the past, how we narrate and understand our histories, what historians do, and how the public understands its histories matter. Living in an ahistorical society is at best troubling and at worst dangerous. The topics addressed in Devotions and Desires each have a history of being understood as standing outside of history and as singular—religion rather than religions, sexuality not sexualities. Across the last ha…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works)