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Queer World The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

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ISBN-10: 0814718752

ISBN-13: 9780814718759

Edition: 1997

Authors: Martin Duberman

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This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the first decade (1986-1996) of its existence at the CUNY Graduate School. CLAGS has had a profound and legitimizing influence on the establishment of gay and lesbian studies as a discipline. Thousands have attended its events, featuring hundreds of scholars, activists, and cultural workers; many thousands more have lamented how they would have liked to have been there. With this book, they finally, vicariously, can be. Divided into five parts-on identities as they revolve around gender and…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Introduction
The Girl I Never Want to Be: Identity, Identification, and Narrative
The Event of Becoming
Whose History? The Case of Oklahoma
Latina Lesbians
inciting sites of political interventions: queer 'n asian
Yukiko Hanawa
Gender Diversity in Native North America: Notes toward a Unified Analysis
The Hijras of India
Are Modern Western Lesbian Women and Gay Men a Third Gender?
Third Genders, Third Sexes
Gender Identity Disorder in Boys: The Search for a Constitutional Factor
Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories
Creating Good-Looking Genitals in the Service of Gender
"Homosexual" and "Heterosexual": Questioning the Terms
Telling Tales: Oral History and the Construction of Pre-Stonewall Lesbian History
Looking for Lesbians in Chinese History
The Curious Case of Michael Wigglesworth
Coming to Terms: Conceptualizing Men's Erotic and Affectional Relations with Men in the United States, 1820-1892
Invisible Women: Retracing the Lives of French Working-Class Lesbians, 1880-1930
Homosexuality and the Sociological Imagination: The 1950s and 1960s
Twenty-five Years after Stonewall: Looking Backward, Moving Forward
Psychobiologic Research on Homosexuality
Scientific Authority and the Search for Sex Hormones
Creating Natural Distinctions
LeVay's Thesis Reconsidered
Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men: Does Coming Out Make a Difference?
Gregory M. Herek
Difference and Diversity: Gay and Lesbian Couples
The Origin of the Gay Psychotherapy Movement
Media, Science, and Sexual Ideology: The Promotion of Sexual Stability
Homosexual Identity and Gay Rights
Sexual Preference as a Suspect Classification
Convictions: Theorizing Lesbians and Criminal Justice
Colin Powell's Reflection: Status, Behavior, and Discrimination
Corpus Juris (Hetero) Sexualis: Doctrine, Discourse, and Desire in Bowers v. Hardwick
Equal Protection and Lesbian and Gay Rights
Thinking Homo/Economically
Incorporating Social Identities into Economic Theory: How Economics Can Come Out of Its Closet of Individualism
Economic Identity/Sexual Identity
The Different Dilemmas of Lesbian and Gay Professionals
The Growth of the Gay and Lesbian Market
The Gay Marketing Moment
The Organizational Shaping of Collective Identity: The Case of Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals in New York
Teenage Narratives of Lesbian Desire
The Lesbian Athlete: Unlearning the Culture of the Closet
One Generation Post-Stonewall: Political Contests over Lesbian and Gay School Reform
Families, Values, and the Rainbow Curriculum: A Roundtable Discussion
Adult Development and Mental Health in Lesbians and Gay Men: Is Middle Age Necessary?
The Virtual and Actual Identities of Older Lesbians and Gay Men
Living with Aging: Review and Prospects
Randy Shilts's Miserable Failure
AIDS and Adolescence
Women and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
On the Need for a Gay Reconstruction of Public Health
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Contributors
Index