The SAGE Handbook of Queer Studies

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