Henry Abelove / David M. Halperin (eds.)

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

Herausgeber: Halperin, David M.; Barale, Michele Aina; Abelove, Henry

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Produktbeschreibung

Over 40 essays, many already classics, are brought together in this comprehensive multi-disciplinary anthology of critical work in lesbian and gay studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415905190
• ISBN-10: 0415905192
• Artikelnr.: 21744857

Autorenporträt

Henry Abelove is Professor of English at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists. Michèle Aina Barale is Assistant Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. Her book Below the Belt: Essays in Queer Reading is forthcoming from Routledge. David M. Halperin is Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
User's Guide
Part I. Politics of Representation
1. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,
Gayle S. Rubin
2. Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
3. Deviance, Politics, and the Media, Stuart Hall
4. Some Reflections on Separatism and Power, Marilyn Frye
5. Homophobia: Why Bring It Up?, Barbara Smith
6. One is Not Born a Woman, Monique Wittig
7. Silences: "Hispanics," AIDS, and Sexual Practices, Ana Maria Alonso and
Maria Teresa Koreck
8. From Nation to Family: Containing African AIDS, Cindy Patton
Part II: Spectacular Logic
9. Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation, Teresa De Lauretis
10. Eloquence and the Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Impulse
in Responses to the Death of Max Robinson, Phillip Brian Harper
11. Television/Feminsm: HeartBeat and Prime Time Lesbiansim, Sasha Torres
12. Commodity Lesbianism, Danae Clark
13. The Spectacle of AIDS, Simon Watney
14. Sontags Urbanity, D.A. Miller
15. "Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water . . .",
Daniel J. Selden
Part III: Subjectivity, Discipline, Resistance
16. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Adrienne Rich
17. Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior, Tomás
Almaguer
18. Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s], Biddy Martin
19. Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic, Sue-Ellen Case
20. Imitation and Gender Insubordination, Judith Butler
21. Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender, Marjorie Garber
Part IV: The Uses of the Erotic
22. The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde
23. The Boys in My Bedroom, Douglas Crimp
24. Looking for Trouble, Kobena Mercer
25. Robert Mapplethorpe and the Discipline of Photography, Richard Meyer
26. Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans, Henry Abelove
Part V: "The Evidence of Experience"
27. The Evidence of Experience, Joan W. Scott
28. Is There a History of Sexuality?, David M. Halperin
29. "They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong": The Historical Roots of the Modern
Lesbian Identity, Martha Vicinus
30. "Lines She Did Not Dare": Angelina Weld Grimke , Harlem Renaissance
Poet, Gloria T. Hull
31. Capitalism and Gay Identity, John D'Emilio
Part VI: Collective Identities / Dissident Identities
32. Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries
in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China, Charlotte Furth
33. The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized
Homosexuality in Native North America, Harriet Whitehead
34. Just One of the Boys: Lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-1988, Esther
Newton
35. Hijras as Neither Man Nor Woman, Serena Nanda
36. Tearooms and Sympathy or The Epistemology of the Water Closet, Lee
Edelman
Part VII: Between the Pages
37. Double Consciousness in Sapphos Lyrics, John J. Winkler
38. De-Constructing the Lesbian Body: Cherríe Moraga's Loving in the War
Years, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
39. When Jack Blinks: Si(gh)ting Gay Desire in Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker,
Michèle Aina Barale
40. "It's Not Safe. Not Safe at All": Sexuality in Nella Larsen's
Passing,Deborah E. McDowell
41. Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide,
Jonathan Dollimore
42. The Sonograms of Gertrude Stein, Catharine R. Stimpson
Suggestions for Further Reading