Format:
xi, 278 pages ;
,
20 cm.
ISBN:
1-78873-231-6
,
978-1-78873-231-4
Series Statement:
Radical thinkers
Content:
Provides a sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society. Escoffier tracks LGBT movements across the contested terrain of American political life, where they have endured the historical tension between the homoeroticism coursing through American culture and the periodic outbreaks of homophobic populism. Escoffier explores how every new success enables a new disciplinary and normalizing form of domination; only the active exercise of democratic rights and participation in radical coalitions allows LGBT people to sustain the benefits of community and the freedom of sexual perversity. --From publisher description
Note:
First published by University of California Press, 1998
,
Part one. Sexual revolution. Sexual revolution and the politics of gay identity -- The political economy of the closet toward an economic history of gay and lesbian life before Stonewall -- Homosexuality and the sociological imagination: hegemonic discourses, the circulation of ideas, and the process of reading in the 1950s and 1960s
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Part two. Intellectuals and cultural politics. Inside the ivory closet: the challenge facing lesbian and gay studies -- From community to university: generations, paradigms, and vernacular knowledge in lesbian and gay studies -- Intellectuals, identity politics, and the contest for cultural authority -- Pessimism of the mind: universities and the decline of public discourse -- Under the sign of the queer: cultural studies and social theory
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Part three. From identity politics to radical democracy. The limits of multiculturalism: identity politics and the transformation of the public sphere -- Reflections on Queer Nation, with Allan Bérubé -- Culture wars and identity politics: the religious right and the cultural politics of homosexuality -- Conclusion: Meditations in an emergency
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, (UK EBK) ISBN 978-1-78873-232-1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, (US EBK) ISBN 978-1-78873-233-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Homosexualität
;
Politik
