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Cruising culture : promiscuity, desire and American gay literature / Ben Gove.
LIBRA HQ76.25 .G684 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gove, Ben.
- Series:
- Tendencies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Promiscuity--United States.
- Promiscuity.
- Gay men--Sexual behavior--United States.
- Gay men.
- Gay men--Sexual behavior.
- United States.
- Gay people in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Gove analyzes promiscuity within American gay culture and the root assumptions and contradictions that contribute to dominant understandings of promiscuous sex and desire. He challenges the normative dichotomy of "bad" gay male promiscuity and "good" heterosexual monogamy and presents a wider overview of American attitudes towards sexual practice and desire. The author draws on the autobiographical fiction and memoirs of three influential authors from the early 1960s onwards: John Rechy, Larry Kramer, and David Wojnarowicz, as well as other queer critical, historical, and fictional viewpoints to illustrate the argument.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [194]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0748613609
- 0748613617
- OCLC:
- 42835427
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