A fascinating book about the history of Queer Theory and the postwar sociological studies of deviance that provided its foundation。 Love's blend of complex analysis and limpid prose is all too rare in academic texts。 By its end， Love's argument becomes an impassioned plea for Queer Theory to move beyond the outdated notion of anti-normativity and to attend to the reality of contemporary queer lives in all their complicity and contradiction。 Whether you agree with its thesis or not， "Underdogs" c A fascinating book about the history of Queer Theory and the postwar sociological studies of deviance that provided its foundation。 Love's blend of complex analysis and limpid prose is all too rare in academic texts。 By its end， Love's argument becomes an impassioned plea for Queer Theory to move beyond the outdated notion of anti-normativity and to attend to the reality of contemporary queer lives in all their complicity and contradiction。 Whether you agree with its thesis or not， "Underdogs" could very well become one of the decade's key texts of the field。 。。。more