Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Reader

by Schneider,Beth E.

• ISBN13: 9780415167086
• ISBN10: 0415167086
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This comprehensive reader brings a social science perspective to an area previously dominated by the humanities. Through it, students will be able to follow the story of how sociology has come to engage with gay and lesbian issues from the 1950s to the present, from the earliest research on the underground worlds of gay men to the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s. Bringing together classic readings and the best work of younger scholars from throughout the English-speaking world, the reader will be an invaluable resource for courses at undergraduate and graduate level in all areas of the sociology of sexuality and gender. Separate sections cover the theoretical foundations, identity and community making, institutions and social change, and challenges for the future. Each section begins with a brief introduction which gives readers a brief guide to the readings in that section, contextualises them and relates them to one another and the book ends with an afterword by Ken Plummer summing up the presentstate of the field and looking forward to the future.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Editors	ix	(1)
Acknowledgments	x	(2)
Introduction	xii
1 LOOKING -- THE SOCIOLOGICAL BASELINES	3	(170)
Introduction	3	(2)
Researching Homosexualities	5	(54)
MAURICE LEZNOFF
WILLIAM A. WESTLEY
1956 "The Homosexual Community"	5	(7)
ALBERT J. REISS, JR
1961 "The Social Integration of Queers and Peers"	12	(17)
LAUD HUMPHREYS
1970 "The Breastplate of Righteousness"	29	(9)
ESTHER NEWTON
1972 "The `Queens'"	38	(13)
ALAN P. BELL
MARTIN S. WEINBERG
1978 "Homosexualities: A Concluding Overview and Epilogue"	51	(8)
Theorizing Homosexualities: The Foundations of the Constructionist Debate	59	(114)
WILLIAM SIMON
JOHN H. GAGNON
1967 "Homosexuality: The Formulation of a Sociological Perspective"	59	(9)
MARY MCINTOSH
1968 "The Homosexual Role"	68	(9)
FREDERICK L. WHITAM
1977 "The Homosexual Role: A Reconsideration"	77	(7)
KENNETH PLUMMER
1981 "Homosexual Categories: Some Research Problems in the Labelling Perspective of Homosexuality"	84	(16)
GAYLE S. RUBIN
1984 "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality"	100	(34)
STEVEN EPSTEIN
1987 "Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism"	134	(26)
CAROLE S. VANCE
1989 "Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality"	160	(13)
2 LOOKING IN -- IDENTITIES AND COMMUNITIES	173	(130)
Introduction	173	(2)
Building Gay and Lesbian Communities	175	(55)
NANCY ACHILLES
1967 "The Development of the Homosexual Bar as an Institution"	175	(8)
CAROL WARREN
1974 "Space and Time"	183	(11)
MARTIN P. LEVINE
1979 "Gay Ghetto"	194	(13)
STEPHEN O. MURRAY
1979 "The Institutional Elaboration of a Quasi-ethnic Community"	207	(8)
SUSAN KRIEGER
1983 "An Identity Community"	215	(5)
BARRY D. ADAM
1985 "Structural Foundations of the Gay World"	220	(10)
Building Identities	230	(73)
BARRY M. DANK
1971 "Coming Out in the Gay World"	230	(16)
BARBARA PONSE
1978 "The Social Construction of Identity and its Meanings within the Lesbian Subculture"	246	(15)
RICHARD TROIDEN
1988 "A Model of Homosexual Identity Formation"	261	(18)
GILBERT HERDT
1989 "Gay and Lesbian Youth, Emergent Identities, and Cultural Scenes at Home and Abroad"	279	(24)
3 LOOKING OUT-INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE	303	(176)
Introduction	303	(3)
Creating Social Movements	306	(71)
DENNIS ALTMAN
1971 "The End of the Homosexual?"	306	(6)
JEFFREY WEEKS
1985 "The Meaning of Diversity"	312	(22)
JOSHUA GAMSON
1989 "Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement `Newness'"	334	(15)
VERTA TAYLOR
NANCY E. WHITTIER
1992 "Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization"	349	(17)
NANCY E. STOLLER
1995 "Lesbian Involvement in the AIDS Epidemic: Changing Roles and Generational Differences"	366	(11)
Challenging Institutional Heterosexism	377	(102)
BETH E. SCHNEIDER
1984 "Peril and Promise: Lesbians' Workplace Participation"	377	(13)
KATH WESTON
1991 "Families We Choose"	390	(22)
PETER M. NARDI
RALPH BOLTON
1991 "Gay-Bashing: Violence and Aggression Against Gay Men and Lesbians"	412	(22)
STEVEN C. DUBIN
1992 "Gay Images and the Social Construction of Acceptability"	434	(33)
BARRY D. ADAM
1994 "Anatomy of a Panic: State Voyeurism, Gender Politics, and the Cult of Americanism"	467	(12)
4 LOOKING AHEAD-CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH	479	(126)
Introduction	479	(2)
Globalizing Gay and Lesbian Studies	481	(40)
NAYAN SHAH
1993 "Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History"
EVERT VAN DER VEEN
AART HENDRIKS
ASTRID MATTIJSSEN
1993 "Lesbian and Gay Rights in Europe: Homosexuality and the Law"	491	(15)
DENNIS ALTMAN
1994 "The Emergence of a Non-government Response to AIDS"	506	(15)
Doing Race, Class, and Gender	521	(32)
THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE
1979 "A Black Feminist Statement"	521	(6)
GLORIA ANZALDUA
1990 "Bridge, Drawbridge, Sandbar or Island: Lesbians-of-Color Hacienda Alianzas"	527	(10)
TOMAS ALMAGUER
1993 "Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior"	537	(16)
Queering the Sociological	553	(52)
ARLENE STEIN
1992 "Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism"	553	(11)
LISA DUGGAN
1994 "Queering the State"	564	(9)
JANICE M. IRVINE
1994 "A Place in the Rainbow: Theorizing Lesbian and Gay Culture"	573	(16)
JOSHUA GAMSON
1995 "Must Identity Movements Self-destruct? A Queer Dilemma"	589	(16)
Afterword: Kenneth Plummer, "The Past, Present, and Futures of the Sociology of Same-sex Relations"	605	(10)
Index	615