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Myth of the modern homosexual : queer history and the search for cultural unity /
"With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within lesbian and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture. It presents evidence that queers are part of a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. Gender studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One: Social Constructionism and Other Myths; 1. The Search for Cultural Unity; Social constructionism; Essentialism; Gender nonconformity; Identity; 'Homosexualities'; Discourse and shirts; Sexuality; Uses and abuses of theory; 2. Queer BC (Before Constructionism); Identity; Passive roles; Orientation; Exclusive homosexuality; Exclusive lesbianism; The bisexual myth; 3. The Myth of the Modern Homosexual; Social control; The 'homosexual'; The 1869 watershed; The slowness of 'medicalization'
- The myth of internalized homophobiaThe distorting/subverting mirror; 'Intergenerational' and 'egalitarian' models; Capitalism and the family; 4. It's Just a Phrase We're Going Through; Generic queers; The 'sodomite'; The 'active' homosexual; Cultural queer-words; The 'lesbian'; Queer language; Obscure origins; Dyke; Faggot; Gay; Queer; Part Two: The Nature of Queer History; 5. What Is Queer History?; Queer historians; Queer culture versus homophobic discourse; The law; The fallacy of 'anachronism'; 6. The Evidence of Things Not Seen; Trials; Literature; Censorship; 'Obscenity'
- Outright destructionSuppression; Protection of privacy; Self-censorship; Misconstruction; Ethnography; Suppression of research; Secret history; Conclusion; 7. Lesbian Historiography; A separate herstory?; The standard of proof; Evidence; Ancient Amazons and other foremothers; The lesbian and the law; Catharina alias Anastasius; Female husbands and cross-dressing; Anne Lister; 'Romantic friendships'; The butch; Part Three: Queer Culture; 8. The Great Queens of History; Lists of famous homosexuals; Cultural unification; Pairs of lovers; Paired saints; Chinese tradition; Queer icons.
- The lesbian cultural universe9. Queer (Sub)cultures; Queer geography; 'Birth' of the subculture; Early queer subcultures; Queer diaspora; Queer migration; Queer cultural continuity; 10. Queer Folk and Culture Queens; Ethnic unity; Culturally identified queers; Culturally identified dykes; The queer tradition; Anti-culture queens; Kith and kin; Conclusion: reclamation and reconstruction; References; Index.