Domesticity and Queer Theory
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“Domesticity and Queer Theory plunges us into everyday scenes of laundry and lunch-making, washing up and taking care, to show us the ways that the reproductive life of the home has always been a site of queer/trans world-making. This collection offers a new orientation to domesticity, drawing out the mixed emotions and messy entanglements that make up queer lives at home.”
- Juno Richards, author of The Fury Archives
“This collection adds to a growing body of scholarship that reassesses the political value and valences of the home, long cordoned off in queer studies as hopelessly confining. Instead, the editors and authors provide a sustained re-reading of queer theory alongside domestic spaces and practices to locate new lineages of personal and social potentiality. These lively and provocative essays offer new models for exploring how the home can sustain queer life, at once ordinary and fantastic.”
- Stephen Vider, author of The Queerness of Home
The contributors to this book assert the value of domesticity as an object for queer theory and a practice of queer survival. As queer theorists grapple with the uneven normalization of queer life, domesticity and the home present key sites for reaffirming queer theory’s commitment to queer and trans people and the complex lives they build. Contributors examine how an AIDS hospice enables queer kinship and grassroots resistance, how potluck dinners support queer joy, how the practice of being a parent unsettles queer theory’s political claims to antinormativity, and how domestic life affords a powerful mode of queer archival practice, preservation, and display. Domesticity and Queer Theory charts a new history for queer theory and offers frameworks for approaching domesticity in the present as an essential part of queer life.
Jess Shollenberger is the author of Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism (2025). They teach English at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Mary Wilson is Associate Professor of English and Communication at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. She is the author of The Labors of Modernism (2013) and co-editor of Rhys Matters: New Critical Perspectives (2013).
Domesticity and Queer Theory asserts the value of domesticity as an object for queer study and a practice of queer survival. As queer theorists confront the ethical and political crises brought on by the uneven normalization of queer life in the twenty-first century, domesticity and the home present key sites for reaffirming queer theory’s commitment to queer and trans people and the complex lives they build. Contributors examine how potluck dinners foster joy in the American South, how an AIDS hospice in San Francisco enables queer kinship and grassroots resistance, how a house-turned-museum in London preserves the ephemeral signs of queer dwelling, how the practice of being a parent unsettles queer theory’s political claims to antinormativity, and the ways domestic life itself affords a powerful mode of queer archival practice, among other topics. Domesticity and Queer Theory charts a new history for the field and offers frameworks for approaching domesticity in the present as an essential part of queer life.
“Domesticity and Queer Theory plunges us into everyday scenes of laundry and lunch-making, washing up and taking care, to show us the ways that the reproductive life of the home has always been a site of queer/trans world-making. This collection offers a new orientation to domesticity, drawing out the mixed emotions and messy entanglements that make up queer lives at home.”
- Juno Richards, author of The Fury Archives
“This collection adds to a growing body of scholarship that reassesses the political value and valences of the home, long cordoned off in queer studies as hopelessly confining. Instead, the editors and authors provide a sustained re-reading of queer theory alongside domestic spaces and practices to locate new lineages of personal and social potentiality. These lively and provocative essays offer new models for exploring how the home can sustain queer life, at once ordinary and fantastic.”
- Stephen Vider, author of The Queerness of Home
First edited volume to contextualize the queer domestic turn Responds to and interrogates queer theory's vexed relationship to "home" and "domesticity" Combines interdisciplinary research with personal scholarship anchored in the authors' experiences
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Jess Shollenberger
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Literature, Gender and Sexuality Literature and Space Home Queer Theory Queer Domestic Turn Literature and Cultural Studies
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“This interdisciplinary collection of essays adds to a growing body of scholarship that reassesses the political value and valences of the home, long cordoned off in queer studies as hopelessly confining. Instead, the editors and authors provide a sustained re-reading of queer theory alongside domestic spaces and practices to locate new lineages of personal and social potentiality, in potlucks, historic homes, residential hotels, and even the laundry. Ranging from ethnography to literary analysis, these lively and provocative essays offer new models for exploring how the home can sustain queer life, at once ordinary and fantastic.” (Stephen Vider, author of “The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II”)
“Domesticity and Queer Theory plunges us into everyday scenes of laundry and lunch-making, washing up and taking care, to show us the ways that the reproductive life of the home has always been a site of queer/trans world-making. Moving from queer parenthood to end-of-life hospice, from modernist boarding houses to AIDS-era residential hotels, this collection offers a new orientation to domesticity, drawing out the mixed emotions and messy entanglements that make up queer lives at home. A gem of book —truly dazzling work.” (Juno Richards, Yale University, author of “The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes”)
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