How to Be Gay

Name: How to Be Gay
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ISBN: 9780674283992

ISBN-10: 0674283996

ISBN-13: 9780674283992

Edition: 2014

Authors: David M. Halperin

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No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea, they will say, is just a stereotype-ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth.David Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that gayness…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.41" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.