Out in Public Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World

by Lewin, Ellen; Leap, William L.

• ISBN13: 9781405191012
• ISBN10: 1405191015
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, subjectivity and culture. Affirms the importance of recognizing gay and lesbian social issues within the arena of public anthropology Explores critical concerns of gay activism in a variety of global settings, from the U.S., the European Union, Singapore, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, and Guadalajara. Offers a unique focus on the politics of being gay and lesbian - in cross-cultural perspective Deals with broad-ranging issues that affect human sexuality and human rights globally

Author Biography

Ellen Lewin is Professor of Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Cornell University Press, 1993) and Recognizing Ourselves: Lesbian and Gay Ceremonies of Commitment (Columbia University Press, 1998), and the editor of Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America (Beacon Press, 1996) and of Feminist Anthropology: A Reader (Blackwell, 2006). With William L. Leap, she has co-edited two volumes of essays on lesbian and gay anthropology, Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (University of Illinois Press, 1996) and Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

William Leap is Professor of Anthropology at American University. He is the author of Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), and editor of Public Sex, Gay Space (Columbia University Press, 1999) and co-editor of Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language (University of Illinois Press, 2004). With Ellen Lewin, he has co-edited Out in the Field and Out in Theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Editors' Introduction	p. 1
Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience	p. 25
My Date with Phil Donahue: A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land	p. 27
Changes and Challenges: Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV Prevention Work in Guadalajara	p. 33
Going Home Ain't Always Easy: Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability	p. 54
Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident Terrain	p. 71
The Personal Isn't Always Political	p. 73
Who's Gay? What's Gay? Dilemmas of Identity Among Gay Fathers	p. 86
A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem	p. 104
Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and Broader Ideological Positions	p. 123
Tuskegee on the "Down Low": A Bioculturalist Brings the Past into the Present	p. 125
Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries	p. 143
The Power of Stealth: (In) Visible Sites of Female-to-Male Transsexual Resistance	p. 164
Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and "Sadomasochistic" Torture at Abu Ghraib	p. 180
Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring and (Changing) Gay Geographies in Washington, DC	p. 202
International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and Transgender Identities	p. 223
Public Sex: The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the (In) Visibility of Female Sexualities	p. 225
Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and Public Activism in Nicaragua	p. 240
Life Lube: Discursive Spheres of Sexuality, Science, and AIDS	p. 256
Man Marries Man in Nigeria?	p. 273
Sexuality and Neoliberal Citizenship	p. 293
LGBT Rights in the European Union: a Queer Affair?	p. 295
Turning the Lion City Pink? Interrogating Singapore's Gay Civil Servant Statement	p. 317
The Marriage between Kinship and Sexuality in New Mexico's Domestic Partnership Debate	p. 338
Index	p. 357
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