Newton / Barale / Moon Margaret Mead Made Me Gay

Personal Essays, Public Ideas
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8134-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Series Q

A collection of essays by a pioneering queer anthropologist.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newton, Esther

Barale, Michèle Aina

Moon, Michael

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Goldberg, Jonathan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Halberstam, Judith

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: The Butch Anthropologist Out in the Field / Judith Halberstam ix

Foreword: On Being Different: An Appreciation / William L. Leap xix

Acknowledgments xxiii

Introduction 1

Part I: Drag and Camp

From the Appendix to Mother Camp, Field Methods (1972) 11

Role Models (1972) 14

Preface to the Phoenix Edition of Mother Camp (1979) 30

Theater: Gay Anti-Church—More Notes on Camp (1992/1999) 34

Dick(less) Tracy and the Homecoming Queen: Lesbian Power and Representation in Gay Male Cherry Grove (1996) 63

Part II: Lesbian-Feminism

High School Crack-up (1973) 93

Marginal Woman/Marginal Academic (1973) 103

The Personal is Political: Consciousness Raising and Personal Change in the Women's Liberation Movement (Shirley Walton, 1971) 113

Excerpt from Womanfriends (with Shirley Walton, 1976) 142

Will the Real Lesbian Community Please Stand Up? (1982/1998) 155

Part III: Butch

The Misunderstanding: Toward a More Precise Sexual Vocabulary (with Shirley Walton, 1984) 167

The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman(1984) 176

Beyond Freud, Ken, and Barbie (1986) 189

My Butch Career: A Memoir (1996) 195

Part IV: Queer Anthropology

DMS: The Outsider's Insider (1995) 215

Too Queer for College: Notes on Homophobia (1987) 219

An Open Letter to "Manda Cesara" (1980) 225

Of Yams, Grinders, and Gays: The Anthropology of Homosexuality (1988) 229

Lesbian and Gay Issues in Anthropology: Some Remarks to the Chairs of Anthropology Departments (1993) 238

My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork (1992) 243

Notes 259

Bibliography 293

Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

Esther Newton is Professor of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor at State University of New York at Purchase. She is the author of several books, including Mother Camp, a groundbreaking study of American drag queens, and Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town. Among other distinctions, she was Scholarly Advisor for the documentary film Paris Is Burning, a founding member of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and member of the Advisory Group for Stonewall History Project.