Description: This book critically investigates the standardization of heteronormativity and heteropatriarchal stereotypes. Critiquing the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary, the chapters deconstruct gender essentialism and embrace gender inclusivity in both theory and practice.
Brief description: Omar Swartz is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado Denver.
Review Quotes:
"Beyond the Heteronorm contributes significantly to a range of emergent and established fields such as feminist literary studies, queer studies, and transgender studies. Interrogating the tenets of heteronormativity, this timely collection calls attention to the ways in which diverse creative works and cultural practices engage critical alterities." --John C. Ryan, Associate Professor, Southern Cross University, Australia
"Despite a lot of activism and scholarship, the body-politics, ego-politics, and binary-politics of gendered knowledge production continue to take place in unquestionably celebratory ways. This thought-provoking volume invites us to explore varied pathways in which intersectional feminist culture and nature can be curated in unprejudiced forms, beyond heteronormative knowledge systems." --Sayan Dey, Author of Green Academia (2022) and Performing Memories and Weaving Archives (2023) "Beyond the Heteronorm is a representative volume bringing together different critiques of heteronormativity and heteropatriarchy from India, Africa, and the western world. An up-to-date read, highly recommended!" --Clemens Ruthner, Trinity College Dublin