Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays—many of them already classics—The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work currently being done in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies...
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The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader is the biggest and most comprehensive multi-disciplinary anthology of critical work in lesbian/gay studies.Comprising scholarship, criticism, commentary, and political analysis, lesbian/gay studies is one of the fastest growing fields in contemporary thought. Its influence is changing the shape of every branch of learning in the humanities and social sciences.Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--this collection provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work currently being done in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader explores a multitude of sexual, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic experiences. Ranging across disciplines including history, literature, critical theory, cultural studies, African American studies, ethnic studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology, classics, and philosophy, this anthology traces the inscription of sexual meanings in all forms of cultural expression. Representing the best and most significant English language work in the field, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader addresses topics such as butch-fem roles, the cultural construction of gender, lesbian separatism, feminist theory, AIDS, safe-sex education, colonialism, S/M, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, children's books, black nationalism, popular films, Susan Sontag, the closet, homophobia, Freud, Sappho, the media, the hijras of India, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the politics of representation. It also contains an extensive bibliographical essay which will provide readers with an invaluable guide to further reading.In the tradition of Routledge's Cultural Studies and Unequal Sisters, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader marks a critical moment in the development of the field. It will be essential reading for anyone--gay or straight--interested in the history of sexuality, sexual politics, and gender studies. Contributors: Henry Abelove, Tomas Almaguer, Ana Maria Alonso, Michele Barale, Judith Butler, Sue-Ellen Case, Danae Clark, Douglas Crimp, Teresa de Lauretis, John D'Emilio, Jonathan Dollimore, Lee Edelman, Marilyn Frye, Charlotte Furth, Marjorie Garber, Stuart Hall, David Halperin, Phillip Brian Harper, Gloria T. Hull, Maria Teresa Koreck, Audre Lorde, Biddy Martin, Deborah E. McDowell, Kobena Mercer, Richard Meyer, D. A. Miller, Serena Nanda, Esther Newton, Cindy Patton, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, Joan W. Scott, Daniel L. Selden, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Barbara Smith, Catharine R. Stimpson, Sasha Torres, Martha Vicinus, Simon Watney, Harriet Whitehead, John J. Winkler, Monique Wittig, and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano.
AcknowledgmentsCopyright InformationIntroductionUser's GuideIPolitics and Representation1Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality32Epistemology of the Closet453Deviance, Politics, and the Media624Some Reflections on Separatism and Power915Homophobia: Why Bring It Up?996One Is Not Born a Woman1037Silences: "Hispanics," AIDS, and Sexual Practices1108From Nation to Family: Containing African AIDS127IISpectacular Logic9Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation14110Eloquence and Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Impulse in Responses to the Death of Max Robinson15911Television/Feminism: HeartBeat and Prime Time Lesbianism17612Commodity Lesbianism18613The Spectacle of AIDS20214Sontag's Urbanity21215"Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water..."221IIISubjectivity, Discipline, Resistance16Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence22717Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior25518Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s]27419Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic29420Imitation and Gender Insubordination30721Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender321IV"The Uses of the Erotic"22The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power33923The Boys in My Bedroom34424Looking for Trouble35025Robert Mapplethorpe and the Discipline of Photography36026Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans381V"The Evidence of Experience"27The Evidence of Experience39728Is There a History of Sexuality?41629"They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong": The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity43230"Lines She Did Not Dare": Angelina Weld Grimke, Harlem Renaissance Poet45331Capitalism and Gay Identity467VICollective Identities/Dissident Identities32Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China47933The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized Homosexuality in Native North America49834Just One of the Boys: Lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-198852835Hijras as Neither Man Nor Woman54236Tearooms and Sympathy, or, The Epistemology of the Water Closet553VIIBetween the Pages37Double Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics57738De-constructing the Lesbian Body: Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the War Years59539When Jack Blinks: Si(gh)ting Gay Desire in Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker60440"It's Not Safe. Not Safe at All": Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing61641Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide62642The Somagrams of Gertrude Stein642Suggestions for Further Reading653
