Ethics Of Marginality : A New Approach to Gay Studies /

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Is celebration of culturally marginalized people by the dominant culture actually benefitting those who are oppressed? Whose stakes are served in such a celebration, and how are existing power relations altered? These are some of the questions John Champagne asks in this original and timely critique...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Champagne, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Marginality, Social.
Homosexuality > Philosophy.
Homosexuality and literature.
Homosexuality and art.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Homosexualite et litterature.
Homosexualite et art.
Homosexualite > Philosophie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Is celebration of culturally marginalized people by the dominant culture actually benefitting those who are oppressed? Whose stakes are served in such a celebration, and how are existing power relations altered? These are some of the questions John Champagne asks in this original and timely critique, which moves gay studies beyond both identity politics and the ""rights"" discourse within which much of contemporary gay studies is positioned. Champagne argues that in the modern West, culturally marginalized people such as gays cannot define and legitimate their own existence outside the framewor.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780816686216

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