Cover -- Queer Theory and Social Change -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Reception of Theory -- Generations of Understanding and Practice -- The Organization of This Work -- Part I: Positioning Queer Theory -- 1. Crossroads -- The Current Dilemma -- The Postmodern Turn -- The Academic Context -- 2. Making Queer Theory -- Beginnings -- Queer Theory Proper -- Queer Theory and Diversity -- Precursors -- Class in Queer Theory -- Power and the Production of Ideology -- The Paradox of Queer Theory -- The Use of the Concept of Culture -- Part II: Evaluating Practice -- 3. Considering Sex, Gender, and Difference -- The Essentialist/Constructionist Debate: From Troubles to Difference -- Queer and Different -- Solidarity and Solitary Analyses -- 4. Capitalism and Its Transgressors -- Capitalism, Community, and Identity -- The Transformation of the Social Sphere -- The Destruction of Community -- Communities in Late Capitalism -- Politics and Lifestyle -- Consuming Desire -- Globalizing Queer -- 5. Meta-Identity, Performativity, and Internalized Homophobia -- Academic Stardom, Performance, and the Attributes of Language -- Roles and Subversions: Professing Parody -- Parody, Imitation, and Internalized Homophobia -- Part III: Moving Ahead -- 6. From Culture to Action -- What Is Political? -- Identifying with Social Movements -- The Appropriation of Energy -- Resistance Movements -- Class, Race, Gender, and Social Resistance -- Conclusion: Theory, Politics, and the Community -- The Queer Community -- Queer Communities as Part-Cultures -- Developing Strategy -- The Promise of Civil Society -- Queer Theory Revisited -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.