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Item Details
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MARGARET MEAD MADE ME GAY
PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IDEAS |
| By: |
Esther Newton |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£89.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0822326043 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780822326045 |
| Publisher: |
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 November, 2000 |
| Series: |
Series Q |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
Chronicling the development of author's ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this book covers a range of topics such as why we need precise sexual vocabularies, why there have been fewer women doing drag than men, and how academia can make itself more hospitable to queers. |
| Synopsis: |
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection covers a range of topics such as why we need more precise sexual vocabularies, why there have been fewer women doing drag than men, and how academia can make itself more hospitable to queers. It brings together such classics as "The Mythic Mannish Lesbian" and "Dick(less) Tracy and the Homecoming Queen" with entirely new work such as "Theater: Gay Anti-Church."Newton's provocative essays detail a queer academic career while offering a behind-the-scenes view of academic homophobia. In four sections that correspond to major periods and interests in her life-"Drag and Camp," "Lesbian-Feminism," "Butch," and "Queer Anthropology"-the volume reflects her successful struggle to create a body of work that uses cultural anthropology to better understand gender oppression, early feminism, theatricality and performance, and the sexual and erotic dimensions of fieldwork. Combining personal, theoretical, and ethnographic perspectives, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay also includes photographs from Newton's personal and professional life.With wise and revealing discussions of the complex relations between experience and philosophy, the personal and the political, and identities and practices, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is important for anyone interested in the birth and growth of gay and lesbian studies. |
| Illustrations: |
23 photographs |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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