How to be gay / David M. Halperin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012.Description: viii, 549 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674066793 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76/62 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ76 .H2795 2012
Contents:
B+ could try harder -- Diary of a scandal -- History of an error -- American falsettos -- Gay identity and its discontents -- Homosexuality's closet -- What's gayer than gay? -- The queen is not dead -- Why are the drag queens laughing? -- Culture and genre -- The passion of the crawford -- Suffering in quotation marks -- The beauty and the camp -- Mommie queerest -- Gay family romance -- Men act, women appear -- The sexual politics of genre -- Tragedy into melodrama -- Bitch baskets -- Gay femininity -- Gender and genre -- The meaning of style -- Irony and misogyny -- What is gay culture? -- Judy Garland vs. identity art -- Culture vs. subculture -- Queer forever -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction HQ 76 HAL 2012 1 Available 06740667931

Includes bibliographical references and index.

B+ could try harder -- Diary of a scandal -- History of an error -- American falsettos -- Gay identity and its discontents -- Homosexuality's closet -- What's gayer than gay? -- The queen is not dead -- Why are the drag queens laughing? -- Culture and genre -- The passion of the crawford -- Suffering in quotation marks -- The beauty and the camp -- Mommie queerest -- Gay family romance -- Men act, women appear -- The sexual politics of genre -- Tragedy into melodrama -- Bitch baskets -- Gay femininity -- Gender and genre -- The meaning of style -- Irony and misogyny -- What is gay culture? -- Judy Garland vs. identity art -- Culture vs. subculture -- Queer forever -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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