The Queer Art of Failure

Notes

Judith Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once.

Artist / Author Judith Halberstam
Publisher Duke University Press
ISBN 9780822350453
Reference P2232
Date 2011
Type Publication

Keywords

criticism and theory feminism feminist gender queer sex sexuality

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