queersexlife: Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity

By Terry Goldie

Evocative of Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, this frank and personal collection of essays explores the politics of gender, identity, race, and queer sex imbued with the author's own experiences. Terry Goldie delves into subjects that are both varied and explicit, including drag queens, feminism, cross-cultural sex, and the homosexual child, all with a perceptive and provocative eye, the result of which expands and deepens our understanding of the parameters and ramifi cations of queer sexuality, in all its forms. Terry Goldie is the author of three previous books and is an English professor at York University in Toronto.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551522365
• ISBN13: 9781551522364
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Sexuality and Identity: A Personal Look

Goldie, Terry. "Queersexlife: Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity", Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008. Sexuality and Identity: A Personal Look Amos Lassen "Queersexlife" is something of a memoir and something of a collection of ideas on queer sexuality and identity. It is intimate, honest and quite frank. Goldie looks at the diversity of the GLBT community and explores drag queens, feminists, bisexuals, gay youth as well as sex across cultures and the whole concept of being out. The issues are complex and in trying to understand them, Goldie attempts to understand himself as well. At some time in our lives, we have all dealt with these issues and some of us have found answers which fit us but not necessarily fit an entire community and this is probably due to our diversity. Goldie questions what we are looking for and does so by using the concepts of desire and pleasure. He poses difficult questions and then attempts to answer them and gives us new ideas in a witty and persuasive way. This is quite a book that will have you thinking.