Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay ExperiencesKen Plummer This book of nineteen original essays by activists and academics documents and analyses the dramatic changes in lesbian and gay experience over the last twenty years. It charts the growth of lesbian and gay studies, and examines key issues around communitites, identities, relationships, sexualities and politics. These essays, edited by a leading author in the field, herald a new confidence and maturity for the growing field of lesbian and gay studies. |
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Page vii
... gay and lesbian world making 1 SPEAKING ITS NAME: INVENTING A LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 3 Ken Plummer Part II Establishing the male homosexual: the Turkish and Mesoamerican experience 2 THE 'UNDERDEVELOPMENT' OF MODERN/GAY HOMOSEXUALITY ...
... gay and lesbian world making 1 SPEAKING ITS NAME: INVENTING A LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 3 Ken Plummer Part II Establishing the male homosexual: the Turkish and Mesoamerican experience 2 THE 'UNDERDEVELOPMENT' OF MODERN/GAY HOMOSEXUALITY ...
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... male gays. Yet, across country and gender, I sense a commonality of concern.Judith Schuyf may speak of lesbian ... homosexual experience: the moment of entering the personhood of gay and lesbian publicly and of exiting from the closet ...
... male gays. Yet, across country and gender, I sense a commonality of concern.Judith Schuyf may speak of lesbian ... homosexual experience: the moment of entering the personhood of gay and lesbian publicly and of exiting from the closet ...
Page xvii
... homosexual', so there is nothing fixed about 'the sexual'. All that is solid melts into air. The sexuality of modern gay men in the 1970s was often 'fast', but during the 1980s—with AIDS education playing a major role—it often shifted ...
... homosexual', so there is nothing fixed about 'the sexual'. All that is solid melts into air. The sexuality of modern gay men in the 1970s was often 'fast', but during the 1980s—with AIDS education playing a major role—it often shifted ...
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... men (qua men) who would, these days, almost certainly be gay identified (but could not then because the very idea hardly existed). I am thinking of K.M.Kertbeny, the Hungarian doctor who coined the term 'homosexual' in 1869; of Karl ...
... men (qua men) who would, these days, almost certainly be gay identified (but could not then because the very idea hardly existed). I am thinking of K.M.Kertbeny, the Hungarian doctor who coined the term 'homosexual' in 1869; of Karl ...
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... male gays and lesbians about the male gay and lesbian experience: explicit, open, out. Most ofthese earlier writings occurred outside universities, published as articles in short-lived gay and lesbian newspapers or as campaigning ...
... male gays and lesbians about the male gay and lesbian experience: explicit, open, out. Most ofthese earlier writings occurred outside universities, published as articles in short-lived gay and lesbian newspapers or as campaigning ...
Contents
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The Turkish and Mesoamerican experience | 27 |
Part III CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES | 51 |
Pretending to be families? | 85 |
Models of love support and activism | 149 |
The lesbian case | 185 |
Radicalism rights and citizenship in the UK | 215 |
A BRIEF GUIDE TO FURTHER READING | 249 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 255 |
NAME INDEX | 272 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 276 |
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