Queer Commodities

'Part of a recently renewed queer critical interest in capitalism and commodity cultures, Queer Commodities repurposes the concept of the subcultural in order to make clear that commodification is the ambivalent heart of our most cherished queer collectivities. Davidson is as punchy and compelling as the clutch of contemporary American queer fiction on which he draws.' - Annamarie Jagose, author of Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence

Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson argues that while these subcultures are necessarily commodified, they also provide means of subversively negotiating aspects of life under capitalism.Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson argues that while these subcultures are necessarily commodified, they also provide means of subversively negotiating aspects of life under capitalism.