ISBN:
9781848608269
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 472 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Handbook of lesbian and gay studies
DDC:
306.766
Keywords:
Homosexuality
;
Lesbianism
;
Gay and lesbian studies
Abstract:
Drawing from a rich team of global contributors and carefully structured to elucidate the core issues in the field, this text is organised into four sections: History and theory; Identity and community; Institutions; and Politics
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: HISTORY AND THEORY; 1 - From Liberation to Transgressionand Beyond. Gay, Lesbian and Queer Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century; 2 - The Heterosexual /Homosexual Binary Past, Present and Future; 3 - The Mainstreaming of Lesbian and Gay Studies?; 4 - Unusual Fingers Scientific Studies of Sexual Orientation; 5 - Heterosexuality: It's Just Not Natural!; 6 - The Comparative Sociology of Homosexualities; Part II: IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY; 7 - From the Bowery to the Castro. Communities, Identities and Movements
Description / Table of Contents:
8 - New Technologies and 'Cyber-queer' Research9 - Queer Bodies and the Production of Space; 10 - The ForgottenA Community Without a Generation - Older Lesbians and Gay Men; 11 - Queer Diaspora; 12 - Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth; 13 - The Bisexual Menace. Or, Will the Real Bisexual Please Stand Up?; Part III: INSTITUTIONS; 14 - Imagining the Place of the State Where Governance and Social Power Meet; 15 - Lesbian and Gay Health Power, Paradigms and Bodies; 16 - Innocence and Experience Paradoxes in Sexuality and Education; 17 - Lesbian and Gay Bodies of Law
Description / Table of Contents:
18 - Religious Views of Homosexuality19 - Gays and Lesbians as Workersand Consumers in the Economy; Part IV: POLITICS; 22 - Making a Minority Understanding the Formation of the Gay and Lesbian Movement in the United States; 23 - Anti-Gay and Lesbian Violence and its Discontents; 24 - Globalization and the International Gay/Lesbian Movement; 25 - Nationalism Has a Lot to Do with It!Unraveling Questions of Nationalism and Transnationalism in Lesbian/Gay Studies; 26 - Sexual Citizenship Marriage, the Market and the Military; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/hdbk_lgs
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781848608269
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