Modern homosexualities : fragments of lesbian and gay experience / edited by Ken Plummer
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 281 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Plummer, Kenneth
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Speaking its name : inventing a lesbian and gay studies / Ken Plummer -- The 'underdevelopment' of modern/gay homosexuality in Mesoamerica / Stephen O. Murray -- Masculinity, femininity, and Turkish male homosexuality / Huseyin Tapinc -- The company of friends and lovers : lesbian communities in the Netherlands / Judith Schuyf -- Coming out : lesbian identities and the categorization problem / Valerie Jenness -- The role of disclosure in coming out among gay men / Peter Davies -- Loves, sexualities, and marriages : strategies and adjustments / Maggie French -- Daring to pretend? : motherhood and lesbianism / Pat Romans -- That's what friends are for : friends as family in the gay and lesbian community / Peter M. Nardi -- A cocktail of alarm : same-sex couples and migration to Australia 1985-90 / John Hart -- Report from a rotten state : 'marriage' and 'homosexuality' in 'Denmark' / Henning Bech. and The AIDS dialectics : awareness, identity, death, and sexual politics / Tim Edwards -- Lesbian politics and AIDS work / Beth E. Schneider -- Sex and caring among men : impacts of AIDS on gay people / Barry D. Adam -- Constructing lesbian sexualities / Diane Richardson -- Resisting the erasure of lesbian sexuality : a challenge for queer activism / Anna Marie Smith -- Abseil makes the heart grow fonder : lesbian and gay campaigning tactics and section 28 / Vicki Carter -- Dangerous activism / Jason Annetts and Bill Thompson -- Equal rights for all : strategies for lesbian and gay equality in Britain / Peter Tatchell.
- Summary
- These original essays, by both activists and academics, document and analyse the dramatic changes in lesbian and gay experience over the last twenty years. This book heralds a new maturity for lesbian and gay studies.
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- Other Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 020321062X (electronic bk.)
9780203210628 (electronic bk.)
9780415064200
0415064201
9780415064217
041506421X
9781134922437 (e-book)
1134922434
9781134922420 (e-book)
1134922426
1280336293
9781280336294
0415064201 (Cloth)
041506421X (Paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and indexes.
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