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Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World
Ellen Lewin, William L. Leap
Ellen Lewin, William L. Leap
ISBN: 9781405191012
Format: Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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* 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.
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 cross-cultural perspective * Deals with broad-ranging issues that affect human sexuality and human rights globally * Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of "Best Anthology"
| ISBN | 1405191015 | | Pages | 384 | | ISBN13 | 9781405191012
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 648 | | Imprint | Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) | | Published in | Chicester | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Readings in Engaged Anthropology | | Publication date | 09 Apr 2009 | | Height (mm) | 247 | | Library of Congress | HQ75.5 | | Width (mm) | 175 | | DEWEY | 306.766 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate |
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| | | Editors' Introduction by William L. Leap and Ellen Lewin | | 1 | | Pt. I | | Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience | | 25 | | 1 | | My Date with Phil Donahue: A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land by Esther Newton | | 27 | | 2 | | Changes and Challenges: Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV Prevention Work in Guadalajara by Hector Carrillo | | 33 | | 3 | | Going Home Ain't Always Easy: Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability by E. Patrick Johnson | | 54 | | Pt. II | | Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident Terrain | | 71 | | 4 | | The Personal Isn't Always Political by Karen Brodkin | | 73 | | 5 | | Who's Gay? What's Gay? Dilemmas of Identity Among Gay Fathers by Ellen Lewin | | 86 | | 6 | | A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem by Natasha Sandraya Wilson | | 104 | | Pt. III | | Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and Broader Ideological Positions | | 123 | | 7 | | Tuskegee on the "Down Low": A Bioculturalist Brings the Past into the Present by Rachel Watkins | | 125 | | 8 | | Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries by Scott Morgensen | | 143 | | 9 | | The Power of Stealth: (In)Visible Sites of Female-to-Male Transsexual Resistance by Elijah Adiv Edelman | | 164 | | 10 | | Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and "Sadomasochistic" Torture at Abu Ghraib by Margot Weiss | | 180 | | 11 | | Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring and (Changing) Gay Geographies in Washington, DC by William L. Leap | | 202 | | Pt. IV | | International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and Transgender Identities | | 223 | | 12 | | Public Sex: The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the (In) Visibility of Female Sexualities by Megan Sinnott | | 225 | | 13 | | Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and Public Activism in Nicaragua by Florence E. Babb | | 240 | | | More... | | |
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