The Power of Queer History

Bibliographic Data

ID5736701
AuthorsRegina Kunzel (corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume123
Issue5
Pages1560-1582
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ahr/rhy202
OpenAlexW2902248687
LanguageEN
Citations received10

From its initial engagement with questions about the emergence of sexual identity formation, community life, and social movement activism, LGBT/queer history has expanded to consider the ways in which sexual and gender nonconformity are imbricated in broad histories of power, politics, and the state. Rather than a bounded identity category, “queer” operates in some of this work as a powerful critical lens and mode of analysis, one that exposes and unsettles a range of taken-for-granted assumptions, institutions, and arrangements. This essay explores dynamic new work in the field of LGBT/queer history, most of it focused on the modern U.S., to consider historians’ efforts to render sexuality a “useful category of historical analysis,” illuminating the imbrication of sexuality and power across a broad range of historical narratives and fields.

Aesthetics · Art · Field (mathematics) · Human sexuality · Identity (music) · Literature · Narrative · Nonconformity · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Queer · Queer theory · Sexual identity · Sociology · American History and Culture · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law

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