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Peacocks, chameleons, centaurs : gay suburbia and the grammar of social identity / Wayne Brekhus.
Van Pelt Library HQ76.2.N4852 N493 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Brekhus, Wayne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men--New York Suburban Area--Case studies.
- Gay men.
- Gay men--Identity--Case studies.
- Group identity--New York Suburban Area--Case studies.
- Group identity.
- Suburban life--New York Suburban Area--Case studies.
- Suburban life.
- Lifestyles--New York Suburban Area--Case studies.
- Lifestyles.
- Gay men--Identity.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Gay suburbia and the grammar of social identity
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Gay suburbanites : a case study in the grammar and microecology of social identity
- "Everything about me is gay" : identity peacocks
- "You have to drive somewhere just to be gay" : identity chameleons
- "Gay defines only a small part of me" : identity centaurs
- Contested grammars : gay identity disputes
- Shifting grammars : lifecourse changes in and structural constraints on identity management
- Vegan peacocks, christian chameleons, and soccer mom centaurs : identity grammar beyond gay identity
- Duration disputes : identity stability vs. identity mobility
- Density disputes : identity purity vs. identity moderation
- Dominance disputes : identity singularity vs. identity balance
- Conclusion
- Appendix : grounded theory and analytic fieldwork.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, Rutgers University.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-245) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0226072916
- 0226072924
- OCLC:
- 51518381
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