American homo : community and perversity / Jeffrey Escoffier.
Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Sexual Revolution. 1. Sexual Revolution and the Politics of Gay Identity. 2. The Political Economy of the Closet: Toward an Economic History of Gay and Lesbian Life before Stonewall. 3. Homosexuality and the Sociological Imagination: Hegemonic Discourses, the Circulation of Ideas, and the Process of Reading in the 1950s and 1960s
- pt. 2. Intellectuals and Cultural Politics. 4. Inside the Ivory Closet: The Challenge Facing Lesbian and Gay Studies. 5. From Community to University: Generations, Paradigms, and Vernacular Knowledge in Lesbian and Gay Studies. 6. Intellectuals, Identity Politics, and the Contest for Cultural Authority. 7. Pessimism of the Mind: Universities and the Decline of Public Discourse. 8. Under the Sign of the Queer: Cultural Studies and Social Theory
- pt. 3. From Identity Politics to Radical Democracy. 9. The Limits of Multiculturalism: Identity Politics and the Transformation of the Public Sphere.
- 10. Reflections on Queer Nation / Jeffrey Escoffier and Allan Berube. 11. Culture Wars and Identity Politics: The Religious Right and the Cultural Politics of Homosexuality
- Conclusion: Meditations in an Emergency.