Review: Teachg Genr Lbian and Gay Studi on JSTOR

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• THE LBIAN AND GAY STUDI REAR
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Brgg together forty-two groundbreakg says--many of them already classics--The Lbian and Gay Studi Rear provis a much-need troductn to the ntemporary state of lbian/gay studi, extensively illtratg the range, spe, diversy, appeal, and power of the work currently beg done the field. Featurg says by such proment scholars as Judh Butler, John D'E, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rub, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lbian and Gay Studi Rear explor a multu of sexual, ethnic, racial, and soc-enomic experienc. Reprentg the bt and most signifint English language work the field, The Lbian and Gay Studi Rear addrs topics such as butch-fem rol, the cultural nstctn of genr, lbian separatism, femist theory, AIDS, safe-sex tn, lonialism, S/M, Osr Wil, Gert Ste, children's books, black natnalism, popular films, San Sontag, the closet, homophobia, Frd, Sappho, the media, the hijras of India, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the polics of reprentatn.

Miller, Serena Nanda, Esther Newton, Cdy Patton, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rub, Joan W. Eloquence and the Epaph: Black Natnalism and the Homophobic Impulse Rpons to the Death of Max Robson, Phillip Brian Harper. Chino Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Inty and Behavr, Tomás Almaguer.

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The Bow and the Burn Strap: A New Look at Instutnalized Homosexualy Native North Ameri, Harriet Whehead. When Jack Blks: Si(gh)tg Gay Dire Ann Bannon's Beebo Brker, Michèle Aa Barale. He is the thor of One Hundred Years of Homosexualy and Other Essays on Greek Love.

"At a moment when homosexual rights are at issue school curricula, polil party nventns, state and cy referendums, relig stutns, the ary, and even St. Patrick's Day paras, this book offers a broad, diverse, challengg, ser troductn to a wi range of scholarship the emergg field of gay and lbian studi. "Jt a uple of s ago the ia of a posive and creative lbian and gay studi seemed a fantastil dream.

"It would be difficult to summarize the eclectic ntents of The Lbian and Gay Studi Rear, almost as difficult as would be to summarize the subjects of study seeks to document.

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The Lbian and Gay Studi Rear isn't an encyclopedia, nor do pretend to be.

A Debate on the Perspectiv of Women's Studi and Gay and Lbian Studi. Gay and Lbian Studi is by nature cross-disciplary, verg a wi range of tellectual bas: lerature, history, relign, psychology, soclogy, philosophy, anthropology, medice, law, fe arts, and others.

Dpe the prence of large numbers of homosexuals New York Cy and other urban centers the Uned Stat and throughout the world, their history has often been neglected or margalized, a ttimony to the hibg factors of legal rtrictns on certa forms of sexual nduct, the lack of anizatn among gay men and lbians, and the unwillgns of the larger society to regnize the value and mer of different forms of erotic and affectnal exprsn. The term "uranian" was nsired, but failed to fd favor and was replaced by words such as "homosexual" and "homophile, " arbrary nstctns which, though workable, have been emed too clil some quarters.

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By the late twentieth century "gay" and "lbian" had bee the regnized terms scholarly and popular e. Although the pneers of the gay rights movement are ld by civil libertarians and activists for their ntributn to the polil and social liberatn of homosexuals, they are also signifint for their ncern regnizg the importance of llectg and prervg materials relatg to homosexuals and their vehicl of self-exprsn and intifitn. Yet this nascent attempt at intifyg and llectg materials relatg to the homosexual experience was self hibed and circumscribed by the need of many lbians and gay men to lead hidn liv, fearful that self-disclosure would rult a loss of employment or legal difficulti.

Of urse, this very secrecy has ma rearch strategi to the area of gay studi problematic, wh scholars eher attemptg to tu meangs not overtly exprsed historil rerds or employg materials (such as urt or police reports) to intify behavr not discsed more nventnal sourc. The talog which lists the Library's acquisns sce 1972, reflects the recent expansn of scholarly and popular tert gay and lbian studi. The published materials the Rearch Librari are plemented by mancript llectns reflectg the donatn to the Library of var archiv, the most signifint beg that of the Internatnal Gay Informatn Center, the ventory for which is available at the Informatn Dk room 315.

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The archiv clu the rerds of anizatns such as the Gay Activists Alliance and the Mattache Society; the personal papers of Arthur Bell, Jonathan Katz, and other gay men and lbians; gay- and lbian-related perdils, both domtic and foreign; ephemera such as posters, flyers, announcements, gay ic and lorg books, t-shirts, buttons and gam; and d-visual materials. Reflectg the age of s time, the Dictnary Catalog provis no subject headg for Gay and few entri n be found unr Lbian or Homosexualy; the ma subject entry for material alg wh male and female homosexualy is Sexual Inversn.