Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people are becoming more and more visible in all aspects of American culture, from party politics to MTV videos.\ Despite the recent queer publishing explosion, few texts cover a broad range of topics around sexual and gender identities. Most existing works are high-level theory books, texts focused upon specific disciplines or topics, or practical guides aimed primarily at a heterosexual audience or people just beginning to come out. There has been...
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people are becoming more and more visible in all aspects of American culture, from party politics to MTV videos. Despite the recent queer publishing explosion, few texts cover a broad range of topics around sexual and gender identities. Most existing works are high-level theory books, texts focused upon specific disciplines or topics, or practical guides aimed primarily at a heterosexual audience or people just beginning to come out. There has been to date no general, accessible, and inclusive work suitable for use as an introduction to Queer Studies. In this collection, contributors assess the conflict between postmodernism and identity, the concept which typically serves as a linchpin for social and political organizing. Others address queer theory, looking specifically at how we define it, how it informs political activism, and how we can theorize such aspects of sexual performance/behaviors as s/m or butch-femme relationships. The volume contains contributions from both established and newly emerging Queer Studies scholars, including Amber Ault, M. V. Lee Badgett, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Gregory Conerly, Patricia L. Duncan, Ruth Goldman, Lynda Goldstein, Sherrie A. Inness, Christopher James, Amanda Udis-Kessler, JeeYeun Lee, Michele E. Lloyd, Tracy D. Morgan, Ki Namaste, Vernon Rosario II, Paula Rust, and Siobhan Somerville.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11G. I. Joes in Barbie Land: Recontextualizing Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture92Trans (Homo) Sexuality? Double Inversion, Psychiatric Confusion, and Hetero-Hegemony353Identity/Politics: Historical Sources of the Bisexual Movement524Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Sexual Landscape645Identity, Power, and Difference: Negotiating Conflict in an S/M Dyke Community876Why Suzie Wong Is Not a Lesbian: Asian and Asian American Lesbian and Bisexual Women and Femme/Butch/Gender Identities1157The Politics of Black Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity1338History/Hysteria: Parallel Representations of Jews and Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals1469Who Is That Queer Queer? Exploring Norms around Sexuality, Race, and Class in Queer Theory16910"Tragic Misreadings": Queer Theory's Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity18311Hegemonic Discourse in an Oppositional Community: Lesbian Feminist Stigmatization of Bisexual Women20412Denying Complexity: The Dismissal and Appropriation of Bisexuality in Queer, Lesbian, and Gay Theory21713Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body24114Revamping MTV: Passing for Queer Culture in the Video Closet26215Pages of Whiteness: Race, Physique Magazines, and the Emergence of Public Gay Culture28016Choices and Chances: Is Coming Out at Work a Rational Choice?298Notes on Contributors309Index313
