Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory

Lynne Huffer

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Paper, 376 pages, 10 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14919-8
$27.50 / £19.00

October, 2009
Cloth, 376 pages, 10 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14918-1
$84.50 / £58.50

Preface: Why We Need Madness

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mad for Foucault

1. How We Became Queer

First Interlude: Nietzsche’s Dreadful Attendant

2. Queer Moralities

Second Interlude: Wet Dreams

3. Unraveling the Queer Psyche

Third Interlude: Of Meteors and Madness

4. A Queer Nephew

Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism

5. A Political Ethic of Eros

Postlude: A Fool’s Laughter

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Gay and Lesbian Studies

Series

• Gender and Culture Series

About the Author

Lynne Huffer is professor of women's studies at Emory University and the author of Maternal Pasts, Feminists Futures: Nostalgia and the Question of Difference and Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing.

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