Authors: William G. Tierney
ISBN-13: 9780761906834, ISBN-10: 0761906835
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Scholarly yet provocatively written, Academic Outlaws presents a discussion of how life in the academic world is experienced by gay men and lesbian women. Using a narrative style that mixes autobiography, case study data and fiction, William G Tierney provides timely insight into the challenges gays and lesbians face in higher education and proposes an alternative process for redefining long-established cultural norms.
Introduction: Setting the Record "Straight" | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | A Cartography of Culture | 3 |
2 | Queer Theory as Cultural Politics | 19 |
3 | Dining at the Table of the Norm | 46 |
4 | A World of Five-Second Comments | 69 |
5 | Counterfeiting: The Academic Closet | 93 |
6 | Ashes: A Short Story | 117 |
7 | Queering the Academy: Structure and Change | 138 |
8 | Looking Back, Looking Ahead | 165 |
References | 177 | |
Index | 181 | |
About the Author | 185 |