Authors: Corber, Stephen Valocchi
ISBN-13: 9780631229179, ISBN-10: 0631229175
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Robert J. Corber is Associate Professor of American Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at Trinity College, Hartford. He is author of In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America (1993) and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (1997).
Stephen Valocchi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Hartford. He has published widely on the welfare state and on social movements in the United States, in particular the gay liberation movement. His essays have appeared in Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, and Critical Sociology.
Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of essays that over the past two decades have helped to establish sexuality as one of the most vital and important areas of study in both the humanities and social sciences.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Practices, Identities, Communities | |
1 | The Trouble with Harry Thaw | 21 |
2 | Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism | 31 |
3 | Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS | 46 |
4 | Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Women or Men | 61 |
Pt. II | The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality | |
5 | The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America | 73 |
6 | The Returns of Cleopatra Jones | 88 |
7 | (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler | 102 |
Pt. III | Sexual Citizenship and the Nation-State | |
8 | Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity | 121 |
9 | The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895 | 142 |
10 | The Brandon Teena Archive | 159 |
11 | Sex in Public | 170 |
Pt. IV | Transnationalizing Sexualities | |
12 | Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan | 187 |
13 | Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion | 206 |
14 | The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia | 218 |
15 | A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes | 237 |
Index | 255 |