Contents:
- MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY
- INTRODUCTN TO MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY*
- MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS
- MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY
- MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS
- MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS
- MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS
MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY
“Mead featur fascatg diary entri chroniclg Newton’s youthful realizatn she was gay. “[Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay] is hont, movg on the personal level and provotive on the amic level. ” — Michael Schwartz, Gay & Lbian Review.
Not only anthropologists, but historians, soclogists, and psychologists, all thos who value gay studi, will fd much to light and to ponr this stimulatg volume. This volume is both provotive and accsible enough to be ed succsfully unrgraduate urs on field methods, women’s movements, and gay and lbian studi. Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay ntas enough of that work to make a strong se for Newton as a pneer of queer studi.
It also clus the terrific, prevly unpublished 1990s say ‘Theater: Gay Anti-Church’ which hly explor the cliché of stage-lovg gays. This anthology is an dispensable rource for anyone terted late twentieth-century anthropology, femism, gay and lbian studi, genr and sexualy, and the social science of everyday life.
INTRODUCTN TO MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY*
” — Gayle Rub “Esther Newton’s work... Callg myself gay, which I had done tentatively and wh self-loathg at sixteen, moved opposn to a higher level.
) Nor is Comg of Age Samoa an overt fense of homosexualy.
Has been to chronicle and champn the lbian and gay cultur which I have found both a home and ever-pellg subject matter. However, my relatnship to the anized profsn has never n smoothly for a number of reasons, not least among them the entrenched homophobia of amic anthropology.
MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS
So I looked stead to lbian-femism for support and later to the gay muny, or more specifilly, the growg work of lbian and gay tellectuals. The excerpts and says [ Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay] nstute an tellectual tobgraphy.
I did beg the tobgraphil wrg that Jeff had proposed 1996 after an vatn om the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi at the Cy Universy of New York to give the annual David R. They signify my preoccupatn wh the theatril and polil symbols that signate and shape queer Amerin life, albe very different ways, for both gay men and lbians, cludg myself, as some of the says show.
Some factors are imposed externally, as when my then-partner and I were harassed by young boys durg a Catskills vatn and so sought safety the gay beach rort.
MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY
Gay theatril cross-drsg and the sensibily that ually acpani were the subjects of my first big anthropologil project. Mother Camp self laid the groundwork for the anthropology of homosexualy, pecially the branch that is the study of the cultur of queer people. Yet, after takg up rince Cherry Grove the mid-1980s, I fell for gay men and their domant cultural forms all over aga.
“Theater: Gay Anti-Church” was origally to be a chapter of the Cherry Grove book, which outgrew.
MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS
My climb up the amic ladr was dispted not only by the unnventnaly of my first book on female impersonators and the gay subculture, but also by the historil terventn of the Vietnam War and send-wave femism.
MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS
I would also like to thk that “Mythic” built on whatever fluence Mother Camp has had enuragg the emergg transgenr movement posed of transsexuals, the tersexed (hermaphrod), cross-drsers, nelly queens, and butch and femm that grew om and tersects wh the gay and lbian movement.
MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS
About 1980 I beme active the Anthropologil Rearch Group on Homosexualy (now the Society of Lbian and Gay Anthropologists the Amerin Anthropologil Associatn); our goal was to provi a safe space for queer anthropology and anthropologists and to challenge the entrenched homophohia we had enuntered....
Comg of age polilly durg the antiwar movement, I had a jndiced view of palism, but as Gayle Rub once poted out to me, spe s terrible jtic, palism is not all bad, and the one stutn that has changed more than any other rponse to the mand created by a queer readg public and queer stunts is publishg. Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ias on JSTOR. Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay is the tellectual tobgraphy of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pneer gay and lbian studi.
It brgs together such classics as “The Mythic Mannish Lbian” and “Dick(ls) Tracy and the Homeg Queen” wh entirely new work such as “Theater: Gay Anti-Church.