Queer Theory : An Introduction by Annamarie Jagose
It's just an intro book, you know...
The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
Forget everything you know about science, sexual orientation and sexual identity. In his History of Sexuality, Foucault discusses how sexuality was invented in the 19th century and how power articulates the oppression of these new sexual deviants.
The Fear of Child Sexuality by Steven Angelides
This is a book from an Australian academic that had dedicated many time to study the social reactions against pedophilia and discuss it. His articles are pretty good as well, the book it's like a great compilation. You can find all articles on IPCE.
From here on, you need to understand psychoanalysis quite well to continue.
The Homosexual Desire by Guy Hocquenghem
This is not a book about pedophilia, but it's considered to be one of the earliest works on queer theory, so it builds the whole theoretical part from the very beginning. I read some pages and it surprises me how the issues and perspectives of gay movement in the 70's resembling the same problems we have now in the MAP movement.
Is the Rectum a grave by Leo Bersani
I didn't get it completely, but i see as a work with sufficient potential to be added here.
No Future: Queer Theory and death drive by Lee Edelman
This book is about queer politics and psychoanalysis. One of the author's main theses is about what he calls "the image of the child," which is not the same as real children, and how this fictitious child impacts policies and the way society is organized. For Edelman, the Child is a realm of politics where there is no room for disagreement since no one would be against children. All politics aim to reaffirm this figure and construct a better future for The Child. This better future resonates with heteronormativity, monogamy, anti-abortion, and anti-mapness. Edelman calls it Reproductive Futurism
Hocquenghem - Bersani - Edelman makes Queer theory antisocial thesis.If the fate of the queer is to figure the fate that cuts the thread of futurity, if the jouissance, the corrosive enjoyment, intrinsic to queer (non)identity annihilates the fetishistic jouissance that works to consolidate identity by allowing reality to coagulate around its ritual reproduction, then the only oppositional status to which our queerness could ever lead would depend on our taking seriously the place of the death drive we’re called on to figure and insisting, against the cult of the Child and the political order it enforces, that we, as Guy Hocquenghem made clear,are ‘‘not the signifier of what might become a new form of ‘social organisation,’ ’’ that we do not intend a new politics, a better society, a brighter tomorrow, since all of these fantasies reproduce the past, through displacement, in the form of the future. We choose, instead, not to choose the Child, as disciplinary image of the Imaginary past or as site of a projective identification with an always impossible future. The queerness we propose, in Hocquenghem’s words, ‘‘is unaware of the passing of generations as stages on the road to better living. It knows nothing about ‘sacrifice now for the sake of future generations’ . . . [it] knows that civilisation alone is mortal".
Hatred of Sex by Oliver Davis & Tim Dean
Another book about politics. The last 2 chapters are dedicated to criticize John Bowlby's Attachment Theory and then Trauma theories of Judith Lewis Herman and Bessel Van der Kolk. Too much psychoanalysis here too. Davis & Dean criticize not only how clinical practice is made but also the economic aspects behind this and the crescent claims of trauma and victimization specially in American society.
If anyone has read any or would like to suggest another one to the list, feel free.Traumatology teaches hatred of democracy by suggesting that the human capacity to abuse others legitimates the proliferation of bureaucracies of risk to monitor all of us and the spread of protocols of obedience so that we know to handle the victimized appropriately. Traumatology teaches hatred of sex by wielding—indeed, proliferating—the extreme category of “abuse.” By doing so, it not only targets abuse but disciplines the much wider field of benign sexual inappropriateness and sex in general in a way that seeks to secure appropriate sexual behavior—in other words, occasional or infrequent sex in the context of a long-term, secure, amative, intimate, emotionally rich, age- appropriate, and marriage-like relationship.
