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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792589903321

Autore

Phelan Shane

Titolo

Sexual strangers [[electronic resource] ] : gays, lesbians, and dilemmas of citizenship / / Shane Phelan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-282-93877-0

9786612938771

1-4399-0414-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Queer politics, queer theories

Disciplina

305.9/0664/0973

Soggetti

Gay rights - United States

Political rights - United States

Citizenship - United States

Homosexuality - Political aspects - United States

Lesbianism - Political aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Citizens and Strangers; 2. Structures of Strangeness: Bodies, Passions, and Citizenship; 3. Structures of Strangeness: Citizenship and Kinship; 4. Negotiating Strangeness: Assimilation and Visibility; 5. Strangers among "Us": Secondary Marginalization and "LGBT" Politics; 6. Queering Citizenship; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Is the United States a heterosexual regime? If it is, how may we understand the political position of those who cannot or will not align themselves with heterosexuality? With these provocative questions, Shane Phelan raises the issue of whether lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people can be seen as citizens at all. Can citizenship be made queer? Or does citizenship require the exclusion of those who are regarded as queer to preserve the ""equality"" that it promises? In Sexual Strangers, Shane Phelan argues that, in the United States, queers are strangers -- not