Margaret Mead made me gay : personal essays, public ideas / Esther Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Esther.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Series Q.

Series Q

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newton, Esther.

Gay people--United States.

Gay people.

Lesbians--United States.

Lesbians.

Lesbian feminism--United States.

Lesbian feminism.

Homophobia in anthropology--United States.

Homophobia in anthropology.

Lesbian anthropologists--United States--Biography.

Lesbian anthropologists.

Anthropologists--United States--Biography.

Anthropologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays by a pioneering queer anthropologist.

Contents:

Foreword: The Butch Anthropologist Out in the Field / Judith Halberstam

Foreword: On Being Different: An Appreciation / William L. Leap

PART I: DRAG AND CAMP. From the Appendix to Mother Camp, Field Methods (1972). Role Models (1972) Preface to the Phoenix Edition of Mother Camp (1979). Theater: Gay Anti-Church: More Notes on Camp (1992 /1999). Dick( less) Tracy and the Homecoming Queen: Lesbian Power and Representation in Gay Male Cherry Grove (1996 )

PART II: LESBIAN-FEMINISM. High School Crack-up (1973). Marginal Woman/ Marginal Academic (1973). The Personal Is Political: Consciousness Raising and Personal Change in the Women's Liberation Movement (with Shirley Walton; 1971). Excerpt from Womenfriends (with Shirley Walton; 1976). Will the Real Lesbian Community Please Stand Up? (1982 /1998)

PART III: BUTCH. The Misunderstanding: Toward a More Precise Sexual Vocabulary (with Shirley Walton; 1984). The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman (1984 ). Beyond Freud, Ken, and Barbie (1986 ). My Butch Career: A Memoir (1996 )

PART IV: QUEER ANTHROPOLOGY. DMS: The Outsider's Insider (1995). Too Queer for College: Notes on Homophobia (1987 ). An Open Letter to "Manda Cesara" (1984 ). Of Yams, Grinders, and Gays: The Anthropology of Homosexuality (1988). Lesbian and Gay Issues in Anthropology: Some Remarks to the Chairs of Anthropology Departments (1993). My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork (1992)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index.

ISBN:

9786612903984

9781282903982

1282903985

9780822381341

0822381346

OCLC:

850214362