ISBN:
9781444310672
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (379 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Readings in Engaged Anthropology Ser v.1
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Out in Public : Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World
Keywords:
Gays Social life and customs
;
Homosexuality
;
Gay and lesbian studies
;
Lesbians Social life and customs
;
Gay and lesbian studies
;
Gays ; Social life and customs
;
Homosexuality
;
Lesbians ; Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, subjectivity and culture. Affirms the importance of recognizing gay and lesbian social issues within the arena of public anthropology Explores critical concerns of gay activism in a variety of global settings, from the U.S., the European Union, Singapore, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, and Guadalajara Offers a unique focus on the politics of being gay and lesbian - in cross-cultural perspective Deals with broad-ranging issues that affect human sexuality and human rights globally Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of "Best Anthology".
Abstract:
Out in Public -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience -- Chapter 1 My Date with Phil Donahue: A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land -- Chapter 2 Changes and Challenges: Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV Prevention Work in Guadalajara -- Chapter 3 Going Home Ain't Always Easy: Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability -- Part II Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident Terrain -- Chapter 4 The Personal Isn't Always Political Karen Brodkin -- Chapter 5 Who's Gay? What's Gay? Dilemmas of Identity Among Gay Fathers 1 -- Chapter 6 A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem -- Part III Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and Broader Ideological Positions -- Chapter 7 Tuskegee on the "Down Low": A Bioculturalist Brings the Past into the Present -- Chapter 8 Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries -- Chapter 9 The Power of Stealth: (In)Visible Sites of Female-to-Male Transsexual Resistance -- Chapter 10 Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and "Sadomasochistic" Torture at Abu Ghraib -- Chapter 11 Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring, and (Changing) Gay Geographies in Washington, DC -- Part IV International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and Transgender Identities -- Chapter 12 Public Sex: The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the (In)Visibility of Female Sexualities -- Chapter 13 Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and Public Activism in Nicaragua -- Chapter 14 Life Lube: Discursive Spheres of Sexuality, Science, and AIDS -- Chapter 15 Man Marries Man in Nigeria? -- Part V Sexuality and Neoliberal Citizenship -- Chapter 16 LGBT Rights in the European Union: a Queer Affair?.
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