Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire

Acknowledgments Introduction: A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson Part 1. Against Nature? Queer Sex, Queer Animality 1. Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of "Queer" Animals / Stacy Alaimo 2. Enemy of the Species / Ladelle McWhorter 3. Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary Environmental Reproductive Justice / Noel Sturgeon 4. Queernaturecultures / David Bell Part 2. Green, Pink, and Public: Queering Environmental Politics 5. Non-white Reproduction and Same-Sex Eroticism: Queer Acts against Nature / Andil Gosine 6. From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger 7. Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro 8. Undoing Nature: Coalition Building as Queer Environmentalism / Katie Hogan 9. Fragments, Edges, and Matrices: Retheorizing the Formation of a So-called Gay Ghetto through Queering Landscape Ecology / Gordon Brent Ingram Part 3. Desiring Nature? Queer Attachments 10. "The Place, Promised, That Has Not Yet Been": The Nature of Dislocation and Desire in Adrienne Rich's Your Native Land/Your Life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against Nature / Rachel Stein 11. "fucking close to water": Queering the Production of the Nation / Bruce Erickson 12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands 13. Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer Desire / Dianne Chisholm List of Contributors Index