Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory

by Heather Love

Book Overview

A pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era before Stonewall.

The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, drug addicts, and political radicals. But in the following decades, many of these downcast figures would become the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022666869X
• ISBN13: 9780226668697
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"