Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Routledge, [1993], ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Abelove, Henry.
• Barale, Michèle Aina.
• Halperin, David M., 1952-

Description

xxii, 666 pages; 26 cm

Subjects

• Gays
• Homosexuality

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-666).

Contents

I. Politics and Representation -- 1. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality / Gayle S. Rubin -- 2. Epistemology of the Closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- 3. Deviance, Politics, and the Media / Stuart Hall -- 4. Some Reflections on Separatism and Power / Marilyn Frye -- 5. Homophobia: Why Bring It Up? / Barbara Smith -- 6. One Is Not Born a Woman / Monique Wittig -- 7. Silences: "Hispanics," AIDS, and Sexual Practices / Ana Maria Alonso and Maria Teresa Koreck -- 8. From Nation to Family: Containing African AIDS / Cindy Patton -- II. Spectacular Logic -- 9. Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation / Teresa de Lauretis -- 10. Eloquence and Epitaph: Black Nationalism and the Homophobic Impulse in Responses to the Death of Max Robinson / Phillip Brian Harper -- 11. Television/Feminism: HeartBeat and Prime Time Lesbianism / Sasha Torres -- 12. Commodity Lesbianism / Danaf Clark -- 13. The Spectacle of AIDS / Simon Watney -- 14. Sontag's Urbanity / D. A. Miller -- 15. "Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water..." / Daniel L. Selden -- III. Subjectivity, Discipline, Resistance -- 16. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence / Adrienne Rich -- 17. Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior / Tomas Almaguer -- 18. Lesbian Identity and Autobiographical Difference[s] / Biddy Martin -- 19. Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic / Sue-Ellen Case -- 20. Imitation and Gender Insubordination / Judith Butler -- 21. Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender / Marjorie Garber -- IV. "The Uses of the Erotic" -- 22. The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power / Audre Lorde -- 23. The Boys in My Bedroom / Douglas Crimp -- 24. Looking for Trouble / Kobena Mercer -- 25. Robert Mapplethorpe and the Discipline of Photography / Richard Meyer -- 26. Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans / Henry Abelove -- V. "The Evidence of Experience" -- 27. The Evidence of Experience / Joan W. Scott -- 28. Is There a History of Sexuality? / David M. Halperin -- 29. "They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong": The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity / Martha Vicinus -- 30. "Lines She Did Not Dare": Angelina Weld Grimke, Harlem Renaissance Poet / Gloria T. Hull -- 31. Capitalism and Gay Identity / John D'Emilio -- VI. Collective Identities/Dissident Identities -- 32. Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China / Charlotte Furth -- 33. The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized Homosexuality in Native North America / Harriet Whitehead -- 34. Just One of the Boys: Lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1960-1988 / Esther Newton -- 35. Hijras as Neither Man Nor Woman / Serena Nanda -- 36. Tearooms and Sympathy, or, The Epistemology of the Water Closet / Lee Edelman -- VII. Between the Pages -- 37. Double Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics / John J. Winkler -- 38. De-constructing the Lesbian Body: Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the War Years / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- 39. When Jack Blinks: Si(gh)ting Gay Desire in Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker / Michele Aina Barale -- 40. "It's Not Safe. Not Safe at All": Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Passing / Deborah E. McDowell -- 41. Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide / Jonathan Dollimore -- 42. The Somagrams of Gertrude Stein / Catharine R. Stimpson.

ISBN

• 0415905184
• 0415905192 (pb)
• 9780415905190 (pb)

LCCN

93016231

OCLC

• 27430224
• ocm27430224

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries