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Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age

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Authors:
  1. Kay Siebler

    1. Missouri Western State Univerity, St Joseph, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: LGBT Identity and Selling Queer

    • Kay Siebler
    Pages 1-12

  3. Queerness in the Digital Environment

    • Kay Siebler
    Pages 13-37

  4. Virtual Generation Gaps and What Is “Community”

    • Kay Siebler
    Pages 39-63

  5. Lesbian Chic in the Digital World

    • Kay Siebler
    Pages 65-95

  6. The Digital Swish of Gay Identity

    • Kay Siebler
    Pages 97-122

  7. Transgender Transitions: Sex/Gender Binaries in the Digital Age

    • Kay Siebler
    Pages 123-154

  8. Transqueer Representations: Educating Against the Binaries

    • Kay Siebler
    Pages 155-185

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 187-201
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 This book explores, through specific analysis of media representations, personal interviews, and historical research, how the digital environment perpetuates harmful and limiting stereotypes of queerness. Siebler argues that heteronormativity has co-opted queer representations, largely in order to sell goods, surgeries, and lifestyles, reinforcing instead of disrupting the masculine and feminine heterosexual binaries through capitalist consumption. Learning Queer Identity in the Digital Age focuses on different identity populations (gay, lesbian, transgender) and examines the theories (queer, feminist, and media theories) in conjunction with contemporary representations of each identity group. In the twenty-first century, social media, dating sites, social activist sites, and videos/films, are primary educators of social identity. For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and transsexual peoples, these digital interactions help shape queer identities and communities.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Missouri Western State Univerity, St Joseph, USA

    Kay Siebler

About the author

 Kay Siebler is Professor of English and Gender and Power Studies coordinator at Missouri Western State University, USA.  She has published on topics of queer identity, feminist rhetoric, teaching, student-centered learning, and service learning. She is the author of Composing Feminisms (2008), which documents the impact of feminism and feminist teachers within the field of English education.  

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