Sexual identities, queer politics / edited by Mark Blasius.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blasius, Mark, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay rights.

Gay people--Political activity.

Gay people.

Gay liberation movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 382 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2001]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this collection, political and public policy analysts explore the social concerns of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered--what has come to be known as "lgbt" or "queer" politics. Compared to the humanities and to other social sciences, political science has been slow to address this phenomenon. Issues ranging from housing to adoption to laws on sodomy, however, have increasingly raised important political questions about the rights and status of sexual minorities, particularly within liberal democracies such as the United States, and also on an international level. This anthology offers the first comprehensive overview of the study of lgbt politics in political science across the discipline's main subfields and methodologies, and it spotlights lgbt movements in several regions around the world. Focusing on the politics of sexuality with regard to the politics of knowledge, the book presents a discussion of power that will interest all political scientists and others concerned with minority rights and gender as well as with transformation in the relations between public and private. The articles cover such topics as lgbt power in urban politics, the impact of public opinion on lgbt life, means of effecting legal and political change in the United States, and international differences in lgbt political activism. The authors represent a new cadre of political scientists who are creating an interdisciplinary domain of research that is informed by and in turn generates political activism. They are Dennis Altman, M. V. Lee Badgett, Robert W. Bailey, Mark Blasius, Cathy J. Cohen, Timothy E. Cook, Paisley Currah, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Jan-Willem Duyvendak, Leonard Harris, Bevin Hartnett, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, David Rayside, Rebecca Mae Salokar, and Alan S.Yang.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sexual identities, queer politics

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sexual Identities, Queer Politics, and the Status of Knowledge

Part One: Comparative and International Perspectives

One: The Structuring of Sexual Minority Activist Opportunities in the Political Mainstream: Britain, Canada, and the United States

Two: Identity Politics in France and the Netherlands: The Case of Gay and Lesbian Liberation

Three: Lesbian-Feminist Activism and Latin American Feminist Encuentros

Four: Global Gaze/Global Gays

Five: Sexual Rights: Inventing a Concept, Mapping an International Practice

Part Two: Politically Theorizing Homosexuality

Six: An Ethos of Lesbian and Gay Existence

Seven: Queer Theory, Lesbian and Gay Rights, and Transsexual Marriages

Eight: Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?

Part Three: Sexual-Identity Politics in the United States

Nine: Sexual Identity and Urban Space: Economic Structure and Political Action

Ten: Beyond Gay Rights Litigation: Using a Systemic Strategy to Effect Political Change in the United States

Eleven: Splitting Images: The Nightly Network News and the Politics of the Lesbian and Gay Movement, 1969-1978

Part Four: Sexuality and the Politics of Knowledge

Twelve: "Outing" Alain L. Locke: Empowering the Silenced

Thirteen: Lesbians and Gays and the Politics of Knowledge: Rethinking General Models of Mass Opinion Change

Fourteen: Lesbian and Gay Think Tanks: Thinking for Success

List of Contributors and Affiliations

Notes on the Contributors.

Notes:

Based on a conference organized by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies of the City of University of New York, February 8-9, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691225449 (electronic book)