Denise Tse-Shang Tang – författare

The Sage Handbook of Queer Studies Two Volume Collection offers a comprehensive and globally informed overview of the field, bringing together fifty chapters that map the foundations, developments, and future challenges of queer and LGBTQ+ scholarship. Spanning social theory, politics, history, geography, and cultural analysis, the handbook situates queer identities and experiences within their broader social, institutional, and political contexts rather than treating them as isolated cultural phenomena.

Across its two volumes, the handbook traces the emergence and consolidation of queer/LGBTQ+ studies in the academy, the deep connections between scholarship and activism, and the uneven global conditions shaping sexual rights and visibility. It also addresses newer debates around race, colonialism, political mainstreaming, and backlash, offering critical perspectives on the possibilities and limits of social change. Together, the volumes provide an essential interdisciplinary resource for understanding queer lives, politics, and knowledge production in a rapidly changing world.

Together these volumes offer a holistic overview of Queer Studies, from it’s foundations to it’s potential futures that researchers and scholars engaged in the field will find invaluable.

The Sage Handbook of Queer Studies: Volume One, Foundations, Emergence and Consolidations

Part One: Foundations and Consolidations

Part Two: Building Queer Communities: Spaces, Sex, and Identities

Part Three: The Impacts of LGBTQ Studies on Academic Disciplines

The Sage Handbook of Queer Studies: Volume Two, Developments, Challenges, and Futures

Part One: Seeing the Importance of Race through Intersectional and Postcolonial Impacts

Part Two: Queer Studies and Socio-Political Issues

Part Three: Future Challenges in Queer Studies

The Sage Handbook of Queer Studies: Volume One, Foundations, Emergence and Consolidations provides a wide-ranging, globally attentive overview of the contemporary field of Queer Studies, offering readers an analytical grounding in how social worlds shape queer identities and experiences. Recognising that no single text can be exhaustive, this volume assembles a major collection of scholarship that clarifies the scope and limits of disciplinary approaches, while also making the case for a more explicitly transdisciplinary understanding of sexualities. Across its chapters, Queer Studies is approached neither as “only” cultural studies nor as a narrow set of empirical facts, but as a field that requires humanistic, sociological, and political explanation in tandem.

This first volume begins by tracing the emergence and consolidation of Queer studies within the academy, foregrounding the inseparable relationship between queer experience, activism, and the growth of scholarly legitimacy. It shows how positionality and standpoint have been foundational to the development of queer research, and how collective organising has shaped political change as well as the intellectual agendas of the field. At the same time, the volume remains attentive to the “who, when, and where” of queer studies, highlighting how academic institutionalisation has been uneven, historically concentrated in the Global North, and shaped by broader social and political conditions including decriminalisation, shifting public attitudes, and the expansion of rights-based governance frameworks.

By mapping key areas of social and political research and following their chronological development, The Sage Handbook of Queer Studies Volume One offers a structured account of how Queer Studies took shape, how it became established across disciplines, and how its successes are accompanied by important limitations. This volume is an invaluable resource for researchers seeking to deepen their foundational knowledge of Queer Studies.

Part One: Foundations and Consolidations

Part Two: Building Queer Communities: Spaces, Sex, and Identities

Part Three: The Impacts of LGBTQ Studies on Academic Disciplines