The essays in this volume bring together scholars of postcolonial and lesbian and gay studies in order to examine, from multiple perspectives, the narratives that have sought to define globalization. These scholars have tried not only to assess the validity of the claims made for globalization they have also attempted to identify the tactics and rhetoric strategies through which these claims - and through which global circulation - are constructed and operate.

Índice: The wily homosexual (first--and necessarily hasty--notes) / Silviano Santiago -- Dissident globalizations, emancipatory methods, social erotics / Chela Sandoval -- "There are no lesbians here" : lesbianisms, feminisms, and global gay formations / Katie King -- Can homosexuals end western civilization as we know it? Family values in a global economy / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Family affairs : the discourse of global/localization / Miranda Joseph -- Redecorating the international economy : Keynes, Grant, and the queering of Bretton Woods / Bill Maurer -- Consuming lifestyle : commodity capitalism and transformat... Etc.