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Coming Out In College »

Authors: Robert A. Rhoads
ISBN-13: 9780897893787, ISBN-10: 0897893786
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: October 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Robert A. Rhoads

ROBERT A. RHOADS is a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University.

Book Synopsis

Describes the experiences of gay and bisexual male college students and their struggle to develop a positive sense of identity.

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Employing perspectives from critical and postmodern theory, pivots on the experience of nine male college students who identify themselves as gay, some out of the closet, some not, and others out some doors but not all. Explores the construction of cultural borders, individuals within the borders, cultural borders and the group, and redefining cultural borders. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Series Foreword
	Key Characters
I	Constructing Cultural Borders	1
1	The Struggle for Identity	3
2	Critical Postmodernism	23
3	The Study	41
II	Individuals within the Borders	59
4	The Closet and a Negative Existence	61
5	Coming Out in College	77
III	Cultural Borders and the Group	95
6	Cultural Workers and the Politics of Silencing	97
7	Culture/Subculture	121
IV	Redefining Cultural Borders	141
8	Identity and Socialization	143
9	Toward Communities of Difference	163
	References	177
	Index	187

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