Stephen Valocchi

Capitalisms and Gay Identities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this important text, Stephen Valocchi brings capitalism back into the study of the gay and lesbian movement. He argues that to understand the collective identity, structure, strategies and goals of the movement, we need to understand the role that capitalism and the state have played.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781138489882
• ISBN-10: 1138489883
• Artikelnr.: 57783419

Autorenporträt

Stephen Valocchi is professor of sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His scholarly interests include social movements and the sociology of gender and sexuality. He has published research articles on the gay liberation, civil rights and labor movements, queer theory and social welfare policy. He is also author (along with Robert Corber) of Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (2003) and Social Movements and Activism in the USA (2010). He teaches courses in social inequality, social movements in the United States and sexuality.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Capitalism and Studying LGBT Social Movements and
Identities since World War II 3. The Homophile Movement and the Making of a
Psychiatric Collective Identity 4. The Gay Rights Movement, and the Making
of a Minority Identity 5. Contested Minority Identity and the Religious
Right 6. The Movement Inc., and the Rise of a Domesticated and Consumerist
Gay Identity 7. Rethinking Progress and Identity: Political Economy and
Sexual and Gender Liberation