Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay-PB by Esther Newton, Esther Newton, Newton

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-PB

MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY

Some twenty years before the DSM — the Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorrs, psychiatry’s Bible — would classify homosexualy as a “socpathic personaly disturbance, ” more than forty years before the “diagnosis” would be retracted, and eight s before the dawn of marriage equaly, Mead fied society’s nstrictg nceptns of genr inty and sexual rol. The kd of feelg which you have classified as “homosexual” and “heterosexual” is really “sex adapted to like or unrstood temperaments” vers “sex adapted to a relatnship of strangens and distance” — To thk one go wh man-woman relatnships, or that if ’s wh a sex ’s bee one person belongs the other sex, is a fundamental fallacy.

I believe every person of ordary sex endowment has a pacy for diffe “homosexual” sex exprsn, and specific climax — acrdg to the temperamental suatn.

INTRODUCTN TO 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.

MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS

It also clus the terrific, prevly unpublished 1990s say ‘Theater: Gay Anti-Church’ which hly explor the cliché of stage-lovg gays.

MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY-PB

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. ” — 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. 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.