Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay by Esther Newton - Z-Library

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. “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.

INTRODUCTN TO MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY*

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It also clus the terrific, prevly unpublished 1990s say ‘Theater: Gay Anti-Church’ which hly explor the cliché of stage-lovg gays.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

” — 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.

MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS, PUBLIC IAS

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.

MARGARET MEAD MA ME GAY-PB

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. 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.