ISBN:
9780415223751
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (253 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Culture of Queers
DDC:
306.766
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. Here Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it
Description / Table of Contents:
THE CULTURE OF QUEERS; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1 The politics of gay culture (with Derek Cohen); 2 Believing in fairies: the author and the homosexual; 3 Gay misogyny; 4 It's being so camp as keeps us going; 5 Dressing the part; 6 It's in his kiss!: vampirism as homosexuality, homosexuality as vampirism; 7 Queer noir; 8 Coming out as going in: the image of the homosexual as a sad young man; 9 L'Air de Paris: no place for homosexuality; 10 Charles Hawtrey: carrying on regardless; 11 Rock: the last guy you'd have figured?
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Reading Fassbinder's sexual politics13 Idol thoughts: orgasm and self-reflexivity in gay pornography; 14 Homosexuality and heritage; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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