A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the first decade (1986-1996) of its existence at the CUNY Graduate School.\ CLAGS has had a profound and legitimizing influence on the establishment of gay and lesbian studies as a discipline. Thousands have attended its events, featuring hundreds of scholars, activists, and cultural workers; many...
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This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the first decade (1986-1996) of its existence at the CUNY Graduate School. CLAGS has had a profound and legitimizing influence on the establishment of gay and lesbian studies as a discipline. Thousands have attended its events, featuring hundreds of scholars, activists, and cultural workers; many thousands more have lamented how they would have liked to have been there. With this book, they finally, vicariously, can be. Divided into five parts—on identities as they revolve around gender and sexuality; on the terrains of homosexual history; on mind-body relations; on laws and economics; and on policy issues related to gay youth, AIDS, and aging—A Queer World offers a compelling panorama of gay and lesbian life. Featuring the work, among others, of such figures as Yukiko Hanawa, Will Roscoe, Jewelle L. Gomez, Jonathan Ned Katz, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Jeffrey Escoffier, Janice M. Irvine, Kendall Thomas, Gilbert Herdt, Vivien Ng, Douglas Crimp, Walt Odets, Serena Nanda, Cindy Patton, Michael Moon, William Byne, and Randolph Trumback, A Queer World is distinctive in its focus on the social sciences and issues relating to public policy. Consisting largely of previously unpublished essays, this volume—and its companion volume Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures—is an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in the study of sexuality.
Introduction11The Girl I Never Want to Be: Identity, Identification, and Narrative92The Event of Becoming173Whose History? The Case of Oklahoma244Latina Lesbians355inciting sites of political interventions: queer 'n asianYukiko Hanawa396Gender Diversity in Native North America: Notes toward a Unified Analysis657The Hijras of India828Are Modern Western Lesbian Women and Gay Men a Third Gender?879Third Genders, Third Sexes10010Gender Identity Disorder in Boys: The Search for a Constitutional Factor10811Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories13412Creating Good-Looking Genitals in the Service of Gender15313"Homosexual" and "Heterosexual": Questioning the Terms17714Telling Tales: Oral History and the Construction of Pre-Stonewall Lesbian History18115Looking for Lesbians in Chinese History19916The Curious Case of Michael Wigglesworth20517Coming to Terms: Conceptualizing Men's Erotic and Affectional Relations with Men in the United States, 1820-189221618Invisible Women: Retracing the Lives of French Working-Class Lesbians, 1880-193023619Homosexuality and the Sociological Imagination: The 1950s and 1960s24820Twenty-five Years after Stonewall: Looking Backward, Moving Forward26221Psychobiologic Research on Homosexuality28522Scientific Authority and the Search for Sex Hormones29823Creating Natural Distinctions30924LeVay's Thesis Reconsidered31825Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men: Does Coming Out Make a Difference?Gregory M. Herek33126Difference and Diversity: Gay and Lesbian Couples34527The Origin of the Gay Psychotherapy Movement35828Media, Science, and Sexual Ideology: The Promotion of Sexual Stability38129Homosexual Identity and Gay Rights39930Sexual Preference as a Suspect Classification40631Convictions: Theorizing Lesbians and Criminal Justice41832Colin Powell's Reflection: Status, Behavior, and Discrimination43133Corpus Juris (Hetero) Sexualis: Doctrine, Discourse, and Desire in Bowers v. Hardwick43834Equal Protection and Lesbian and Gay Rights45235Thinking Homo/Economically46736Incorporating Social Identities into Economic Theory: How Economics Can Come Out of Its Closet of Individualism47737Economic Identity/Sexual Identity50238The Different Dilemmas of Lesbian and Gay Professionals50839The Growth of the Gay and Lesbian Market51440The Gay Marketing Moment51941The Organizational Shaping of Collective Identity: The Case of Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals in New York52642Teenage Narratives of Lesbian Desire54943The Lesbian Athlete: Unlearning the Culture of the Closet56344One Generation Post-Stonewall: Political Contests over Lesbian and Gay School Reform57245Families, Values, and the Rainbow Curriculum: A Roundtable Discussion58946Adult Development and Mental Health in Lesbians and Gay Men: Is Middle Age Necessary?60147The Virtual and Actual Identities of Older Lesbians and Gay Men61548Living with Aging: Review and Prospects62749Randy Shilts's Miserable Failure64150AIDS and Adolescence64951Women and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa66352On the Need for a Gay Reconstruction of Public Health668Acknowledgments677Permissions679Contributors682Index689
