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Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture »

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Authors: Alexander Doty
ISBN-13: 9780816622450, ISBN-10: 0816622450
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: June 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Alexander Doty

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Makes Queerness Most?
1There's Something Queer Here1
2Whose Text Is It Anyway? Queer Cultures, Queer Auteurs, and Queer Authorship17
3I Love Laverne and Shirley. Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasures, and Television Sitcoms39
4The Gay Straight Man: Jack Benny and The Jack Benny Program63
5The Sissy Boy, the Fat Ladies, and the Dykes: Queerness and/as Gender in Pee-wee's World81
Afterword: "You Flush It, I Flaunt It!"97
Notes105
Index137

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