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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797995003321

Titolo

Out of the closet, into the archives : researching sexual histories / / edited by Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell ; contributors, Agatha Beins [and fifteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4384-5905-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Disciplina

306.76/6

Soggetti

Gay and lesbian studies

Gay people - Research

Gay people - History

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Something Queer at the Archive ; The Closet and the Archive ; Archival Conditions ; Archival Materiality ; Beyond the Text ; Archival Marginalizations ; Cataloging Queer Lives ; Notes ; References ; Part I: Archival Materiality ; Chapter 1: Making a Place for Lesbian Life at the Lesbian Herstory Archives ; The User ; The Archival Object ; The Archive ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 2: Secrets in Boxes: The Historian as Archivist ; Notes ; References

Chapter 3: Papered Over, or Some Observations on Materiality and Archival Method Notes ; References ; Part II: Beyond the Text ; Chapter 4: Elsa Gidlow's Garden: Plants, Archives, and Queer History ; Enacting a Queer Archival Impulse ; Feminist Gardens ; Discussing Apples ; Solstice Seeds ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 5: Indexing Desire: The Gay Male Pornographic Video Collection as Affective Archive ; Dubbing an Archive ; The Organizational Logics of Smut ; Plague and Desire ; Closing Glimpses ; Notes ; Chapter 6: Feverishly Lesbian-Feminist: Archival Objects and Queer Desires

Nude Lesbian Pastoral The Bodies of Four Publishing Archives ; Minnie Bruce Pratt's Vibrator ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; Part III:



Archival Marginalizations ; Chapter 7: Straight Talk, Queer Haunt: The Paranormal Activity of the Chicano Art Movement ; Talking Sex in the Chicano Archive ; Into the Zone: Queer Points of Encounter ; Speaking the Unspeakable: Sexual Disclosures in Chicana/o Lives ; The Haunting of Jack Vargas: AIDS and the Phantom's Phantom ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 8: Victory Celebration for Essex Charles Hemphill;  or, What Essex Saved ; Notes ; References

Chapter 9: Interrogating Trans* Identities in the Archives The Kinsey Institute Archives ; Archives, Authority, and Discourse ; Serendipity in the Archive: Finding Multiple Narratives ; Creating My Own Archive and Looking to the Future ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 10: Putting Trans* History on the Shelves: The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, Canada ; Why a Trans* Archives? ; The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria ; Challenges ; Notes ; References ; Part IV: Cataloging Queer Lives

Chapter 11: Autobiographical Text, Archives, and Activism: The Jane Rule Fonds and Her Unpublished Memoir, Taking My Life Notes ; References ; Chapter 12: Interviewing Hustlers: Cross-Class Relations, Sexual Self-Documentation, and the Erotics of Queer Archives ; Hustler Protagonists of the Queer Archives: Contexts and Questions ; Thomas Painter and the Young "Proletarians": Between Philanthropy and Commercial Sex ; Male Hustlers in Painter's Sexual Self-Documentation Project ; Notes ; References ; Chapter 13: SUBSCRIBE to Feminary! Producing Community, Region, and Archive

Contextualizing Archival Research