Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies

by Solomon, Alisa; City University of New York. Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies; Duberman, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781558614482
• ISBN10: 1558614486
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

This volume brings together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies. Participants in the outstanding Kessler series, hosted by CLAGS, the premiere U.S. think-tank in the field, they present ten -diverse approaches to the experiences, history, and culture of lesbian and gay people, and in the process they think new and queer ideas into being. Beginning with Joan Nestle, who explores the outsider status of lesbians through the complex life a black lesbian domestic worker, and ending with Judith Butler, who speaks on -human rights in the aftermath of -September 11. The collection includes the pantheon of queer theorists: Edmund White on queer fiction and criticism, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the dialogics of love, and John D'Emilio on gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.

Table of Contents

Foreword	1	(4)
Martin Duberman
Introduction	5	(16)
Alisa Solomon
Paisley Currah
1992
``I Lift My Face to the Hill'': The Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman	21	(20)
Joan Nestle
1993
The Personal is Political: Queer Fiction and Criticism	41	(10)
Edmund White
1994
African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration	51	(12)
Barbara Smith
1995
Reading and Comments: Virgile, Non/Across the Acheron	63	(18)
Monique Wittig
1996
My Butch Career: a Memoir	81	(18)
Esther Newton
1997
... 3, 2, 1, Contact	99	(38)
Samuel R. Delany
1998
A Dialogue on Love	137	(32)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
1999
A Biographer and his Subject: Wrestling with Bayard Rustin	169	(16)
John D'Emilio
2000
A Xicanadyke Codex of Changing Consciousness	185	(12)
Cherrie Moraga
2001
Global Violence, Sexual Politics	197	(18)
Judith Butler
Permissions Acknowledgments	215