Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World
Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors confront the uneasy relationships between lesbian/gay anthropology and applied/public anthropology, whose practitioners have long insisted on a more objective, detached, and apolitical approach to problem-identification and practical problem-solving.\ The book focuses on the authors' engagements in the everyday lives of lesbian/gay people, and describes...
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Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors confront the uneasy relationships between lesbian/gay anthropology and applied/public anthropology, whose practitioners have long insisted on a more objective, detached and apolitical approach to problem-identification and practical problem-solving.The book focuses on the authors’ engagements in the everyday lives of lesbian/gay people, and describes the strategies that they, as public anthropologists, have used to promote effective intervention and change in LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual] communities. They report with candor on issues such as minority or transgressive sexualities and genders that have increasingly become central to political discourses both in the West and in the developing world. They illustrate how these developments occur not in isolation from one another, but as part of dialogues that are intensified by globalization and transnational flows of people and information. Readers will be intrigued by the complex intellectual, political, and theoretical developments that mark this developing field in anthropology. The authors of Out in Public offer a deeper conversation about the meaning of sexuality, subjectivity and culture.
Acknowledgments viiiNotes on Contributors xEditors' Introduction William L. Leap Ellen Lewin 1Part I Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience 251 My Date with Phil Donahue: A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land Esther Newton 272 Changes and Challenges: Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV Prevention Work in Guadalajara Héctor Carrillo 333 Going Home Ain't Always Easy: Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability E. Patrick Johnson 54Part II Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident Terrain 714 The Personal Isn't Always Political Karen Brodkin 735 Who's Gay? What's Gay? Dilemmas of Identity Among Gay Fathers Ellen Lewin 866 A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem Natasha Sandraya Wilson 104Part III Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and Broader Ideological Positions 1237 Tuskegee on the "Down Low": A Bioculturalist Brings the Past into the Present Rachel Watkins 1258 Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries Scott Morgensen 1439 The Power of Stealth: (In) Visible Sites of Female-to-Male Transsexual Resistance Elijah Adiv Edelman 16410 Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and "Sadomasochistic" Torture at Abu Ghraib Margot Weiss 18011 Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring and (Changing) Gay Geographies in Washington, DC William L. Leap 202Part IV International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and Transgender Identities 22312 Public Sex: The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the (In) Visibility of Female Sexualities Megan Sinnott 22513 Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and Public Activism in Nicaragua Florence E. Babb 24014 Life Lube: Discursive Spheres of Sexuality, Science, and AIDS Harris Solomon 25615 Man Marries Man in Nigeria? Rudolf P. Gaudio 273Part V Sexuality and Neoliberal Citizenship 29316 LGBT Rights in the European Union: a Queer Affair? Mark Graham 29517 Turning the Lion City Pink? Interrogating Singapore's Gay Civil Servant Statement Chris Tan 31718 The Marriage between Kinship and Sexuality in New Mexico's Domestic Partnership Debate Lavinia M. Nicolae 338Index 357
