Out in public : reinventing lesbian/gay anthropology in a globalizing world / edited by Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewin, Ellen.

Leap, William.

Series:

Readings in Engaged Anthropology

Readings in Engaged Anthropology ; v.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--Social life and customs.

Lesbians.

Gay people--Social life and customs.

Gay people.

Homosexuality.

Gay and lesbian studies.

Gay studies.

Lesbian studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, subjectivity and culture. Affirms the importance of recognizing gay and lesbian social issues within the arena of public anthropology Explores critical concerns of gay activism in a variety of global settings, from the U.S., the European Union, Singapore, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, and Guadalajara Offers a unique focus on the politics of being gay and lesbian - in cro

Contents:

Out in Public; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience; Chapter 1 My Date with Phil Donahue: A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land; Chapter 2 Changes and Challenges: Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV Prevention Work in Guadalajara; Chapter 3 Going Home Ain't Always Easy: Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability; Part II Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident Terrain; Chapter 4 The Personal Isn't Always Political Karen Brodkin; Chapter 5 Who's Gay? What's Gay? Dilemmas of Identity Among Gay Fathers 1

Chapter 6 A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian AnthemPart III Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and Broader Ideological Positions; Chapter 7 Tuskegee on the "Down Low": A Bioculturalist Brings the Past into the Present; Chapter 8 Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries; Chapter 9 The Power of Stealth: (In)Visible Sites of Female-to-Male Transsexual Resistance; Chapter 10 Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and "Sadomasochistic" Torture at Abu Ghraib

Chapter 11 Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring, and (Changing) Gay Geographies in Washington, DCPart IV International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and Transgender Identities; Chapter 12 Public Sex: The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the (In)Visibility of Female Sexualities; Chapter 13 Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and Public Activism in Nicaragua; Chapter 14 Life Lube: Discursive Spheres of Sexuality, Science, and AIDS; Chapter 15 Man Marries Man in Nigeria?; Part V Sexuality and Neoliberal Citizenship

Chapter 16 LGBT Rights in the European Union: a Queer Affair?Chapter 17 Turning the Lion City Pink? Interrogating Singapore's Gay Civil Servant Statement; Chapter 18 The Marriage between Kinship and Sexuality in New Mexico's Domestic Partnership Debate; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612139406

9781282139404

1282139401

9781405191012

1405191015

9781444310689

1444310682

9781444310672

1444310674

OCLC:

476273384