Out in public : reinventing lesbian/gay anthropology in a globalizing world / / edited by Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (379 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/60973
• Soggetto topico: Lesbians - Social life and customs; Gays - Social life and customs; Homosexuality; Gay and lesbian studies
• Altri autori: LewinEllen LeapWilliam
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Out in Public; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience; Chapter 1 My Date with Phil Donahue: A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land; Chapter 2 Changes and Challenges: Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV Prevention Work in Guadalajara; Chapter 3 Going Home Ain't Always Easy: Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability; Part II Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident Terrain; Chapter 4 The Personal Isn't Always Political Karen Brodkin; Chapter 5 Who's Gay? What's Gay? Dilemmas of Identity Among Gay Fathers 1 ; Chapter 6 A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian AnthemPart III Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and Broader Ideological Positions; Chapter 7 Tuskegee on the "Down Low": A Bioculturalist Brings the Past into the Present; Chapter 8 Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries; Chapter 9 The Power of Stealth: (In)Visible Sites of Female-to-Male Transsexual Resistance; Chapter 10 Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and "Sadomasochistic" Torture at Abu Ghraib ; Chapter 11 Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring, and (Changing) Gay Geographies in Washington, DCPart IV International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and Transgender Identities; Chapter 12 Public Sex: The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the (In)Visibility of Female Sexualities; Chapter 13 Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and Public Activism in Nicaragua; Chapter 14 Life Lube: Discursive Spheres of Sexuality, Science, and AIDS; Chapter 15 Man Marries Man in Nigeria?; Part V Sexuality and Neoliberal Citizenship ; Chapter 16 LGBT Rights in the European Union: a Queer Affair?Chapter 17 Turning the Lion City Pink? Interrogating Singapore's Gay Civil Servant Statement; Chapter 18 The Marriage between Kinship and Sexuality in New Mexico's Domestic Partnership Debate; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 cro
• Titolo autorizzato: Out in public
• ISBN: 1-282-13940-1; 9786612139406; 1-4051-9101-5; 1-4443-1068-2; 1-4443-1067-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826235303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Readings in Engaged Anthropology