Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories
{{short description|Collection of essays on queer politics}}
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{{Infobox book
| editor = Shane Phelan
| publisher = Routledge
| published = 1997
| isbn = 0-415-91416-7
| series = Thinking Gender
| authors = Judith Butler, Cynthia Burack, Stacey Young, Shane Phelan, Angelia R. Wilson, Anna Marie Smith, Gordon A. Babst, Gary Lehring, Morris B. Kaplan, Paisley Currah, Lisa Bower
| pages = 291
| oclc = 33947336
| dewey = 306.76/6
| subjects = Queer theory, politics, homosexuality, LGBT rights in the United States{{cite book |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2955289 |title=Playing with fire : queer politics, queer theories / edited by Shane Phelan |author= |website=NLA Catalogue |year=1997 |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=2021-01-18}}
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Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories is a collection of essays on queer theory and political theory from a queer perspective. It was edited by Shane Phelan and published by Routledge on January 14, 1997,{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33947336|title=Playing with fire : queer politics, queer theories|date=1997|publisher=Routledge|others=Phelan, Shane.|isbn=0-415-91416-7|location=New York|oclc=33947336}} making it one of the first scholarly collections by American political theorists to address the topic of queer politics.{{Cite web|title=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|url=https://www.routledge.com/Playing-with-Fire-Queer-Politics-Queer-Theories/Phelan/p/book/9780415914178|access-date=2021-01-18|website=Routledge & CRC Press|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/PHEPWF|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-18|website=PhilPapers|year=1997|publisher=University of Western Ontario}}
At the time of publication, Feminist Bookstore News described the book as "filled with writings about queer law, politics, and policy", forecasting that it would "do well in university towns and perhaps moderately well with a general audience".{{Cite journal|last1=Seajay|first1=Carol|author-link=Carol Seajay|last2=Graves|first2=Sue|last3=Wall|first3=Leigh|last4=Chalker|first4=Rebecca|last5=Jay|first5=Karla|last6=Napoli|first6=Maryann|last7=Hope|last8=Mohin|first8=Lilian|last9=Lindsey|first9=Michael|last10=Motz|first10=Doug|last11=Henry|first11=Alice|title=Feminist Bookstore News|date=1996-07-01|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28036375|journal=Feminist Bookstore News|volume=19|issue=2|page=136|publisher=Carol Seajay|jstor=community.28036375}}
Contents
- Critically Queer by Judith Butler{{Rp|iii}}
- True or False: The Self in Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory by Cynthia Burack{{Rp|iii}}
- Dichotomies and Displacement: Bisexuality in Queer Theory and Politics by Stacey Young{{Rp|iii}}{{Citation|last=Young|first=Stacey|title=Dichotomies and Displacement: Bisexuality in Queer Theory and Politics|date=1997|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/YOUDAD-2|work=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|pages=55–56|editor-last=Phelan|editor-first=Shane|publisher=Routledge|access-date=2021-03-27}}
- Lesbians and Mestizas: Appropriation and Equivalence by Shane Phelan{{Rp|iii}}
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Queer Translating by Angelia R. Wilson{{Rp|iii}}{{Citation|last=Wilson|first=Angelia R.|title=Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Queer Translating|date=1997|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/WILSOT-11|work=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|pages=99–112|editor-last=Phelan|editor-first=Shane|publisher=Routledge|access-date=2021-03-27}}
- The Centering of Right-Wing Extremism Through the Construction of an "Inclusionary" Homophobia and Racism by Anna Marie Smith{{Rp|iii}}{{Citation|last=Smith|first=Anna Marie|title=The Centering of Right-Wing Extremism Through the Construction of an 'Inclusionary'homophobia and Racism|date=1997|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/SMITCO-31|work=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|editor-last=Phelan|editor-first=Shane|publisher=Routledge|access-date=2021-03-27}}
- Community, Rights Talk, and the Communitarian Dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick by Gordon A. Babst{{Rp|iii}}{{Citation|last=Babst|first=Gordon A.|title=Community, Rights Talk, and the Communitarian Dissent in Bowers V. Hardwick|date=1997|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/BABCRT|work=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|pages=139–72|editor-last=Phelan|editor-first=Shane|publisher=Routledge|access-date=2021-03-27}}
- Essentialism and the Political Articulation of Identity by Gary Lehring{{Rp|iii}}{{Citation|last=Lehring|first=Gary|title=Essentialism and the Political Articulation of Identity|date=1997|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/LEHEAT-3|work=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|pages=173–198|editor-last=Phelan|editor-first=Shane|publisher=Routledge|access-date=2021-03-27}}
- Intimacy and Equality: The Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage by Morris B. Kaplan{{Rp|iii}}
- Politics, Practices, Publics: Identity and Queer Rights by Paisley Currah{{Rp|iii}}{{Citation|last=Currah|first=Paisley|title=Politics, Practices, Publics: Identity and Queer Rights|date=1997|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/CURPPP-2|work=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|editor-last=Phelan|editor-first=Shane|publisher=Routledge|access-date=2021-03-27}}
- Queer Problems/Straight Solutions: The Limits of a Politics of "Official Recognition" by Lisa Bower{{Rp|iii}}{{Citation|last=Bower|first=Lisa|title=Queer Problems/Straight Solutions: The Limits of a Politics of 'Official Recognition.'|date=1997|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/BOWQPS|work=Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories|pages=267–91|editor-last=Phelan|editor-first=Shane|publisher=Routledge|access-date=2021-03-27}}