The Lesbian and gay studies reader / edited by Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, David M. Halperin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1993.Description: xxii, 666 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0415905184 (HB : acid-free paper)
  • 0415905192 (PB : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.9/0664 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.25 .L48 1993
Online resources:
Contents:
I. Politics and representation. Thinking sex : notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / Gayle S. Rubin ; Epistemology of the closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ; Deviance, politics and the media / Stuart Hall ; Some reflections on separatism and power / Marilyn Frye ; Homophobia : why bring it up? / Barbara Smith ; One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig ; Silences : "Hispanics," AIDS, and sexual practices / Ana Maria Alonso and Maria Teresa Koreck ; From nation to family : containing African AIDS / Cindy Patton --
II. Spectacular logic. Sexual indifference and lesbian representation / Teresa de Lauretis ; Eloquence and epitaph : Black nationalism and the homophobic impulse in responses to the death of Max Robinson / Phillip Brian Harper ; Television/feminism : Heartbeat and prime time lesbianism / Sasha Torres ; Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark ; The spectacle of AIDS / Simon Watney ; Sontag's urbanity / D. A. Miller ; "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ..." / Daniel L. Selden --
III. Subjectivity, discipline, resistance. Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich ; Chicano men : a cartography of homosexual identity and behavior / Tomás Almaguer ; Lesbian identity and autobiographical difference[s] / Biddy Martin ; Toward a butch-femme aesthetic / Sue-Ellen Case ; Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler ; Spare parts : the surgical construction of gender / Marjorie Garber --
IV. "The uses of the erotic". The uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde ; The boys in my bedroom / Douglas Crimp ; Looking for trouble / Kobena Mercer ; Robert Mapplethorpe and the discipline of photography / Richard Meyer ; Freud, male homosexuality, and the Americans / Henry Abelove --
V. "The evidence of experience". The evidence of experience / Joan W. Scott ; Is there a history of sexuality? / David M. Halperin ; "They wonder to which sex I belong" : the historical roots of the modern lesbian identity / Martha Vicinus ; "Lines she did not dare" : Angelina Weld Grimké, Harlem Renaissance poet / Gloria T. Hull ; Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio --
VI. Collective identities/dissident identities. Androgynous males and deficient females : biology and gender boundaries in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China / Charlotte Furth ; The bow and the burden strap : a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America / Harriet Whitehead ; Just one of the boys : lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-1988 / Esther Newton ; Hijras as neither man nor woman / Serena Nanda ; Tearooms and sympathy, or, The epistemology of the water closet / Lee Edelman --
VII. Between the pages. Double consciousness in Sappho's lyrics / John J. Winkler ; De-constructing the lesbian body : Cherríe Moraga's Loving in the war years / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano ; When Jack blinks : si(gh)ting gay desire in Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker / Michèle Aina Barale ; "It's not safe, not safe at all" : sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing / Deborah E. McDowell ; Different desires : subjectivity and transgression in Wilde and Gide / Jonathan Dollimore ; The somagrams of Gertrude Stein / Catharine R. Stimpson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-666).

I. Politics and representation. Thinking sex : notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality / Gayle S. Rubin ; Epistemology of the closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ; Deviance, politics and the media / Stuart Hall ; Some reflections on separatism and power / Marilyn Frye ; Homophobia : why bring it up? / Barbara Smith ; One is not born a woman / Monique Wittig ; Silences : "Hispanics," AIDS, and sexual practices / Ana Maria Alonso and Maria Teresa Koreck ; From nation to family : containing African AIDS / Cindy Patton --

II. Spectacular logic. Sexual indifference and lesbian representation / Teresa de Lauretis ; Eloquence and epitaph : Black nationalism and the homophobic impulse in responses to the death of Max Robinson / Phillip Brian Harper ; Television/feminism : Heartbeat and prime time lesbianism / Sasha Torres ; Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark ; The spectacle of AIDS / Simon Watney ; Sontag's urbanity / D. A. Miller ; "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ..." / Daniel L. Selden --

III. Subjectivity, discipline, resistance. Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich ; Chicano men : a cartography of homosexual identity and behavior / Tomás Almaguer ; Lesbian identity and autobiographical difference[s] / Biddy Martin ; Toward a butch-femme aesthetic / Sue-Ellen Case ; Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler ; Spare parts : the surgical construction of gender / Marjorie Garber --

IV. "The uses of the erotic". The uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde ; The boys in my bedroom / Douglas Crimp ; Looking for trouble / Kobena Mercer ; Robert Mapplethorpe and the discipline of photography / Richard Meyer ; Freud, male homosexuality, and the Americans / Henry Abelove --

V. "The evidence of experience". The evidence of experience / Joan W. Scott ; Is there a history of sexuality? / David M. Halperin ; "They wonder to which sex I belong" : the historical roots of the modern lesbian identity / Martha Vicinus ; "Lines she did not dare" : Angelina Weld Grimké, Harlem Renaissance poet / Gloria T. Hull ; Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio --

VI. Collective identities/dissident identities. Androgynous males and deficient females : biology and gender boundaries in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China / Charlotte Furth ; The bow and the burden strap : a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America / Harriet Whitehead ; Just one of the boys : lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-1988 / Esther Newton ; Hijras as neither man nor woman / Serena Nanda ; Tearooms and sympathy, or, The epistemology of the water closet / Lee Edelman --

VII. Between the pages. Double consciousness in Sappho's lyrics / John J. Winkler ; De-constructing the lesbian body : Cherríe Moraga's Loving in the war years / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano ; When Jack blinks : si(gh)ting gay desire in Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker / Michèle Aina Barale ; "It's not safe, not safe at all" : sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing / Deborah E. McDowell ; Different desires : subjectivity and transgression in Wilde and Gide / Jonathan Dollimore ; The somagrams of Gertrude Stein / Catharine R. Stimpson.

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