Burack Sin, Sex, and Democracy

Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7839-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Explores the Christian Right’s use of tailored rhetorics to advance multiple and varied antigay political projects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burack, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: We Are Family

Born-Agains and Other Strangers
The Vision Thing
The Privileged Position of the Christian Right
My Gay Agenda

1. Speaking Right

Queer Is as Queer Does
Defiling Beds, Hearts, and Minds
Who're You Talking To?
Hate the Sin
Being Intolerant
Until the End of the World
Rapture Ready
Know Your Audience
Four Narratives
Use Your Inside Voice

2. The Nightmare of Homosexuality

Gay Blades
Laying Hands on Chick
Behold the Man (and His Time)
Chick Lit
The Devil and Homosexuals
Sin of Sins?
Marketing Hate
Politics and Witness
Pure Rapture
Framing Chick
Standing in the Gap

3. Origin Stories (with Jyl J. Josephson)

Becoming Queer Saving Homosexuals. and America
Being of Two Minds
Choice Point
The Narrative of Development
What Went Wrong?
From Development to Compassion
The Political Work of Compassion
Our Parents and Friends
Safety First
Feeling Sorry for Themselves

4. Getting What "We" Deserve

Pick an Enemy
And Now We Are Terrorists
Setting the Straight Story
The Politics of Desert
Where's the Harm?
Bringing Us All Together

Afterword: Another Gay Agenda

Listen Up!
Out in the Public
Another Gay Agenda

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Burack is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups and coeditor (with Jyl J. Josephson) of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.