03079nam 2200697Ia 450 991045933860332120200520144314.01-282-93877-097866129387711-4399-0414-6(CKB)2670000000019365(EBL)534269(OCoLC)630545107(SSID)ssj0000490338(PQKBManifestationID)11303162(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000490338(PQKBWorkID)10461941(PQKB)11456690(MiAaPQ)EBC534269(MdBmJHUP)muse15652(Au-PeEL)EBL534269(CaPaEBR)ebr10387252(CaONFJC)MIL293877(EXLCZ)99267000000001936520000502d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSexual strangers[electronic resource] gays, lesbians, and dilemmas of citizenship /Shane PhelanPhiladelphia Temple University Press20011 online resource (192 p.)Queer politics, queer theoriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-56639-827-4 1-56639-828-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and index.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; IndexIs 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 -- notQueer politics, queer theories.Gay rightsUnited StatesPolitical rightsUnited StatesCitizenshipUnited StatesHomosexualityPolitical aspectsUnited StatesLesbianismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesElectronic books.Gay rightsPolitical rightsCitizenshipHomosexualityPolitical aspectsLesbianismPolitical aspects305.9/0664/0973Phelan Shane869219MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459338603321Sexual strangers2242876UNINA