Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others Essays & Narratives Beginning with the late 1960s

Beginning with the late 1960s as a time when compulsory sexuality intensified and became increasingly tied to feminist

Sara Dobie Bauer

and representations of black cosmopolitanism in contemporary visual art

Unable to shake the feeling that there's more to this story

I have exclaimed aloud

Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others Essays & Narratives Beginning with the late 1960sIn this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "orientation" aspect of "sexual orientation" and the "orient" in "orientalism," Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being "orientated" means feeling at home, knowing where one