Respectably Queer : Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations /

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"Respectably Queer reveals how neoliberal ideas about difference are becoming embedded in the daily life of a progressive movement and producing frequent conflicts over the meaning of "diversity." The author shows how queer activists are learning from the corporate model to leverage t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ward, Elizabeth Jane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sexual minorities
Sexual minorities > Political activity.
Gay liberation movement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
Minorites sexuelles > Activite politique > États-Unis.
Sexual minorities > Political activity > United States.
Gay liberation movement > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the co-optation of diversity
  • The mainstreaming of intersectionality:
  • Doing identity politics in a diversity culture
  • Getting skilled in queer diversity: Christopher Street West
  • Celebrating queer diversity: the L.A. gay & lesbian center
  • Funding queer diversity: bienestar
  • Defying "diversity as usual": queering intersectionality.

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