Hegemony and heteronormativity revisiting`the political` in queer politics

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : hegemony and heteronormativity / María do Mar Castro Varela and Nikita Dhawan and Antke Engel -- Revisiting contingency, hegemony and universality / Randi Gressgård -- From the "heterosexual matrix" to a "heteronormative hegemony" : initiating a dialogue between Judith Butler and Antonio Gramsci about queer theory and politics / Gundula Ludwig -- Tender tensions-antagonistic struggles-becoming-bird : queer-political interventions into neoliberal hegemony / Antke Engel -- Normative dilemmas and the hegemony of counter-hegemony / María do Mar Castro Varela/Nikita Dhawan -- How Sam became a father, became a citizen : scripts of neoliberal inclusion of disability / Katerina Kolárová -- Signifying theory - politics/queer / Susanne Lummerding -- The pleasures of compliance : domination and compromise within BDSM practice / Volker Woltersdorff.