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The Struggle to Be Gay--In Mexico, for Example.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lancaster, Roger N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people--Mexico.
- Gay people.
- Gender identity--Mexico.
- Gender identity.
- Social classes--Mexico.
- Social classes.
- Sexual minorities--Mexico.
- Sexual minorities.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Being gay is not a given. Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to be Gay makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay life-in Mexico, for example, and by extension in other places as well. Known for his books and essays on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cultural studies scholar Roger Lancaster ponders four decades of visits and returns to Mexican cities. In a brisk series of reflections combining storytelling, ethnography, critique, and razor-edged polemic, he shows, first, how economic inequality affects sexual subjects and subjectivities both from the outside and within, in ways both obvious and subtle, and, second, how what it means to be de ambiente-"on the scene" or "in the life"-has metamorphosed under changing political-economic conditions. The result is a groundbreaking theoretical intervention into ongoing debates over identity politics-and a renewal of our understanding of how identities are constructed, struggled for, and lived"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : when the music stops
- Moment of truth
- A provisional answer to the question
- Life's rich pageant
- Commonplaces
- Precarious lives
- Fable of rapport
- Identity and its discontents
- They lived in a different time from us
- Putos
- Postcards from the ambiente
- Urban tribes
- A tale of two cities
- Conclusion : the horizons of gay identity.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780520397583
- 0520397584
- OCLC:
- 1396064908
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