Margot Weiss

Margot Weiss is a cultural anthropologist whose scholarship brings together queer theory and anthropology to understand the contradictory relationships between queer sexual cultures/politics and contemporary US capitalism. Her books include Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Duke University Press, 2011), which won the Ruth Benedict Book Prize and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies; Queer Then and Now: The David R. Kessler Lectures, 2002-2020 (The Feminist Press, 2023); and Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures (Duke University Press, 2024). She has published over 20 articles and essays in a range of anthropology, queer studies, and American studies journals, including GLQ, American Quarterly, Cultural Anthropology, New Labor Forum, Sexualities, American Anthropologist, and Feminist Anthropology. Currently, she is writing a book about the politics of institutional knowledge production and the place of desire in queer/left activism. Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University, she directs the cluster in Queer Studies and is affiliated with the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For more visit www.margotweiss.com
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