ISBN:
0814746942
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 260 Seiten
DDC:
306.76/6
Keywords:
Geschichte 1970-1992
;
AIDS (Disease)
;
Gay men Sexual behavior
;
Gay men Attitudes
;
Gay men Psychology
;
Machismo
;
Masculinity in popular culture
;
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
;
Homosexueller
;
Männlichkeitskult
;
Homosexuellenbewegung
;
Sexualverhalten
;
USA
;
USA
;
Bibliografie
;
Bibliografie
;
USA
;
Homosexuellenbewegung
;
Geschichte 1970-1992
;
USA
;
Homosexueller
;
Sexualverhalten
;
Männlichkeitskult
Abstract:
Before gay liberation, gay men were usually perceived as failed men - "inverts," men trapped in women's bodies. The 1970s saw a radical shift in gay male culture, as a male homosexuality emerged that embraced a more traditional masculine ethos. The gay "clone," a muscle-bound, sexually free, hard-living Marlboro man, appeared in the gay enclaves of major cities, changing forever the face of gay male culture
Abstract:
Gay Macho presents the ethnography of this homosexual clone. Martin P. Levine, a pioneer of the sociological study of homosexuality, was among the first social scientists to map the emergence of a gay community and this new style of gay masculinity. Levine was a participant in as well as an observer of gay culture in the 1970s, and this perspective allowed him to capture the true flavor of what it was like to be a gay man before AIDS
Abstract:
Later chapters, based on Levine's pathbreaking empirical research, explore some of the epidemiological and social consequences of the AIDS epidemic on this particular substratum of the gay community. Although Levine explicitly rejects pathologizing the gay men afflicted with HIV, his work develops a scathing, feminist-inspired critique of masculinity, whether practiced by gay men or straight men
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