This Companion provides an interdisciplinary and international overview of the increasingly important field of queer studies. The team of respected and experienced scholars and activists foregrounds and promotes the many intersections of queer studies in an accessible, clear and engaging style to produce an indispensable tool for scholars and students alike.

List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: The 'q' Word (Noreen Giffney), Part I Identity 1. On Being Post-Normal: Heterosexuality after Queer Theory (Calvin Thomas) 2. Why Five Sexes Are Not Enough (Iain Morland) 3. 'The Scholars Formerly Known as ...': Bisexuality, Queerness and Identity Politics (Jonathan Alexander and Karen Yescavage) 4. The Curious Persistence of Lesbian Studies (Linda Garber) 5. Making it Like a Drag King: Female-to-Male Masculinity and the Trans Culture of Boyhood (Bobby Noble) 6. Phenomenology, Embodiment and the Political Efficacy of Contingent Identity Claims (Annabelle Willox) 7. Queer Posthumanism: Cyborgs, Animals, Monsters, Perverts (Patricia MacCormack) Part II Discourse 8. Queering, Cripping (Todd R. Ramlow) 9. Generic Definitions: Taxonomies of Identity in AIDS Discourse (Meredith Raimondo) 10. Rethinking the Place of Queer and the Erotic within Geographies of Sexualities (Jon Binnie) 11. To 'Play the Sodomits': A Query in Five Actions (Garrett P.J. Epp) 12. Queer, but Classless? (Yvette Taylor) 13. Queer-in the Sociology of Sport (Jayne Caudwell) 14. 'Things That Have the Potential to Go Terribly Wrong': Homosexuality, Paedophilia and the Kincora Boys' Home Scandal (Margot Gayle Backus) Part III Normativity 15. Queer Theory Goes to Taiwan (Song Hwee Lim) 16. Queer Theory Meets Archaeology: Disrupting Epistemological Privilege and Heteronormativity in Constructing the Past (Thomas A. Dowson) 17. A Queer Case of Judicial Diversity: Sexuality, Law and Judicial Studies (Leslie J. Moran) 18. Queerying Lesbian and Gay Psychology's 'Coming of Age': Was the Past Just Kids' Stuff? (Peter Hegarty) 19. 'Nothing to Hide ... Nothing to Fear': Discriminatory Surveillance and Queer Visibility in Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Kathryn Conrad) 20. Biologically Queer (Myra J. Hird) 21. The New Queer Cartoon (Noreen Giffney) 22. Post-Queer Considerations (David V. Ruffolo) Part IV Relationality 23. Intimate Counter-Normativities: A Queer Analysis of Personal Life in the Early Twenty-First Century (Sasha Roseneil) 24. Queer Middle Ages (Steven F. Kruger) 25. Smacking My Bitch Up: Queer or What? (Nikki Sullivan) 26. 'Quare' Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother (E. Patrick Johnson) 27. 'A Strange Perversity': Bringing Out Desire between Women in Frankenstein (Mair Rigby) 28. Sex and the Lubricative Ethic (Dinesh Wadiwel) 29. All Foucault and No Knickers: Assessing Claims for a Queer-Political Erotics (Tamsin Wilton), Index

Noreen Giffney is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice, and Lecturer in Counselling in the School of Communication and Media at the University of Ulster.

Michael O'Rourke is the series editor of Queer Interventions at Ashgate Publishing. His research concentrates on the intersections between queer theory and Continental philosophy, especially Derrida, Delueze and Guattari, Ranciére, Foucault, Irigaray, Caputo and Nancy.