Out of the closet, into the archives : researching sexual histories / edited by Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, Amy L., editor.

Cantrell, Jaime, 1984- editor.

Series:

SUNY series in queer politics and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay and lesbian studies.

Gay people--Research.

Gay people.

Gay people--History--Sources.

History.

Research.

Physical Description:

xx, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]

Summary:

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research and queer research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, exposes various levels of public and privateness-recognition, awareness, refusal, impulse, disclosure, framing, silence, cultural intelligibility-each mediated and determined through subjective insider/outsider ways of knowing. The contributors draw on their experiences conducting research in disciplines such as sociology, African American studies, English, communications, performance studies, anthropology, and women's and gender studies. These essays challenge scholars to engage with their affective experience of being in the archive, illuminating how the space of the archive requires a different kind of deeply personal, embodied research. Book jacket.

Contents:

Something queer at the archive / Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell

Archival materiality. Making a place for lesbian life at the Lesbian Herstory Archives / Agatha Beins ; Secrets in boxes : the historian as archivist / Craig L. Loftin ; Papered over, or, Some observations on materiality and archival method / MaryanneDever

Beyond the text. Elsa Gidlow's garden : plants, archives, and queer history / Greg Youmans ; Indexing desire : the gay male pornographic video collection as affective archive / Whitney Strub ; Feverishly lesbian-feminist : archival objects and queer desires / Julie R. Enszer

Archival marginalizations. Straight talk, queer haunt : the paranormal activity of the Chicago Art Movement / Robb Hernández ; Victory celebration for Essex Charles Hemphill, or, What Essex saved / Rebecca Lynne Fullan ; Interrogating trans* identities in the archives / Liam Oliver Lair ; Putting trans* history on the shelves : the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, Canada / Aaron H. Devor and Lara Wilson

Cataloging queer lives. Autobiographical text, archives, and activism : the Jane Rule fonds and her unpublished memoir, 'Taking my life' / Linda M. Morra ; Interviewing hustlers : cross-class relations, sexual self-documentation, and the erotics of queer archives / Yuriy Zikratyy ; Subscribe to 'Feminary'! : producing community, region, and archive / Jaime Cantrell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438459035

1438459033

OCLC:

902854115

Publisher Number:

40025726760