Wildness

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The concept of wildness within queer studies has generated new vocabularies for historicizing and theorizing modes of embodiment and categories of experience that lie beyond the conventional, institutionally produced and modern classifications used to describe and explain gender and sexual variance. Contributors to this issue explore the meaning, function and challenges presented by the wild and wildness now and in the past, focusing on how wildness relates to new directions in queer studies, animal studies and the study of embodied difference