Queer Words, Queer Images

by Ringer, R. Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780814774410
• ISBN10: 0814774415
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

In many arenas the debate is raging over the nature of sexual orientation.Queer Words, Queer Imagesaddresses this debate, but with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue precisely because of the way in which we discuss, debate, and communicate about the concept and experience of homosexuality. The debate over homosexuality is fundamentally an issue of communication--as we can see by the recent controversy over gays in the military. This controversy, termed by one gay man as the annoying habit of heterosexual men to overestimate their own attractiveness, has been debated in communication-sensitive terms, such as morale and discipline.The twenty chapters address such subjects as gay political language, homosexuality and AIDS on prime-time television, the politics of male homosexuality in young adult fiction, the identification of female athleticism with lesbianism, the politics of identity in the works of Edmund White, and coming out strategies. This is must reading for students of communication practices and theory, and for everyone interested in human sexuality.Contributing to the book are: James Chesebro (Indiana State), James Darsey (Ohio State), Joseph A. Devito (Hunter College, CUNY), Timothy Edgar (Purdue), Mary Anne Fitzpatrick (Wisconsin, Madison), Karen A. Foss (Humboldt State), Kirk Fuoss (St. Lawrence), Larry Gross (Pennsylvania), Darlene Hantzis (Indiana State), Fred E. Jandt (California State, San Bernardino), Mercilee Jenkins (San Francisco State), Valerie Lehr (St. Lawrence), Lynn C. Miller (Texas, Austin), Marguerite Moritz (Colorado, Boulder), Fred L. Myrick (Spring Hill), Emile Netzhammer (Buffalo State), Elenie Opffer, Dorothy S. Painter (Ohio State), Karen Peper (Michigan), Nicholas F. Radel (Furman), R. Jeffrey Ringer (St. Cloud State), Scott Shamp (Georgia), Paul Siegel (Gallaudet), Jacqueline Taylor (Depaul), Julia T. Wood (North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Gay and Lesbian Rhetoric
The Logic of Folly in the Political Campaigns of Harvey Milk	p. 7
On the Owning of Words: Reflections on San Francisco Arts and Athletics vs. United States Olympic Committee	p. 30
Die Non: Gay Liberation and the Rhetoric of Pure Tolerance	p. 45
Reflections on Gay and Lesbian Rhetoric	p. 77
Portrayals of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Media
Guilt by Association: Homosexuality and AIDS on Prime-Time Television	p. 91
Whose Desire? Lesbian (Non)Sexuality and Television's Perpetuation of Hetero/Sexism	p. 107
Old Strategies for New Texts: How American Television Is Creating and Treating Lesbian Characters	p. 122
What Is Wrong with This Picture? Lesbian Women and Gay Men on Television	p. 143
Portrayals of Gay Men and Lesbians in Language and Text
A Portrait of the Adolescent as a Young Gay: The Politics of Male Homosexuality in Young Adult Fiction	p. 159
Self as Other: The Politics of Identity in the Works of Edmund White	p. 175
Female Athlete = Lesbian: A Myth Constructed from Gender Role Expectations and Lesbiphobia	p. 193
The Politics of Self and Other	p. 209
Interpersonal Communication in Gay and Lesbian Relationships
Self-Disclosure Behaviors of the Stigmatized: Strategies and Outcomes for the Revelation of Sexual Orientation	p. 221
Gender and Relationship Crises: Contrasting Reasons, Responses, and Relational Orientations	p. 238
Gay and Lesbian Couple Relationships	p. 265
Reflections on Interpersonal Communication in Gay and Lesbian Relationships	p. 278
Coming Out in the Classroom
Performing the (Lesbian) Self: Teacher as Text	p. 289
Coming Out to Students: Notes from the College Classroom	p. 296
Coming Out in the Classroom: Faculty Disclosures of Sexuality	p. 322
Ways of Coming Out in the Classroom	p. 332
Contributors	p. 335
Name Index	p. 339
Subject Index	p. 345
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