Out in Public (eBook)

Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World

Ellen Lewin, William L. Leap (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
384 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-1067-2 (ISBN)

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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

* Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of "Best Anthology"

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments.

Notes on Contributors.

Editors' Introduction.

Part I. Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience.

1. My Date with Phil Donahue: A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land
(Esther Newton, University of Michigan).

2. Changes and Challenges: Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV
Prevention Work in Guadalajara (Héctor Carrillo, San Francisco
State University).

3. Going Home Ain't Always Easy: Ethnography and the
Politics of Black Responsibility (E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern
University).

Part II. Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident
Terrain.

4. The Personal Isn't Always Political (Karen Brodkin,
University of California, Los Angeles).

5. Who's Gay? What's Gay?: Dilemmas of Identity
Among Gay Fathers (Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa).

6. A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of
Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem
(Natasha Sandraya Wilson, University of Iowa).

Part III. Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and
Broader Ideological Positions.

7. Tuskegee on the "Down Low": A Bioculturalist Brings the Past
into the Present (Rachel Watkins, American University).

8. Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban
Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries (Scott Morgensen, Macalaster
College).

9. The Power of Stealth: (In)Visible Sites of Female-to-Male
Transsexual Resistance (Elijah Adiv Edelman, American
University).

10. Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and "Sadomasochistic Torture" at
Abu Ghraib (Margot Weiss, Wesleyan University).

11. Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring and (Changing)
Gay Geographies in Washington DC (William L. Leap, American
University).

Part IV. International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and
Transgender Identities.

12. Public Sex:The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the
(In)Visibility of Female Sexualities (Megan Sinnott, Georgia State
University).

13. Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and
Public Activism in Nicaragua (Florence Babb, University of
Florida).

14. Life Lube:Discursive Spheres of Sexuality, Science, and AIDS
(Harris Solomon, Brown University).

15. Man Marries Man in Nigeria? (Rudolf Gaudio, State University
of New York College, Purchase)

Part V. Sexuality and Neo-liberal Citizenship.

16. LGBT Rights in the European Union, a Queer Affair? (Mark
Graham, University of Stockholm).

17. Turning the Lion City Pink?: Interrogating Singapore's
Gay Civil Servant Statement (Chris Tan, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign).

18. The Marriage between Kinship and Sexuality in New
Mexico's Domestic Partnership Debate (Lavinia Nicolae,
University of New Mexico).

Rezensionen

"Lewin and Leap have done it again. Out in Public is an
innovative collection of essays focusing on anthropology's
place in public debates over lesbian/gay lives. This book
demonstrates the crucial contributions that lesbian/gay
anthropology can offer contemporary debates over sexuality and
justice."

-Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine

"For the contributors to this fine volume, practicing
anthropology in public is not about "problem-solving."
Rather, to be out in practice is to use anthropology to protest the
dominant gender order."

-Richard Handler, University of Virginia

"Lewin and Leap have collected many intriguing insights about
the neoliberal global order, real-world problems, and non-normative
sexualities and genders. Those looking for sharp analyses of
contemporary sexual politics will find Out in
Public to be indispensable. It is a
timely and fascinating read that demonstrates, once again, the
centrality of lesbian/gay studies in anthropology to the field at
large and to the wider academy."

-Jeff Maskovsky, Queen's College, City
University of New York

"Insightful, rich portraits of Gay/Lesbian communities as they
come Out in Public in Nicaragua, Thailand, Mexico, Nigeria, Europe,
Singapore and the U.S. Anthropologists engage in contemporary
debates such as gay marriage, gay fatherhood, LGBT rights, and
HIV/AIDS prevention. Critical, sensitive, and compelling
reading."

-Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Readings in Engaged Anthropology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anthropologie • Anthropology • Bisexualität • Bisexualität • Homosexualität • Homosexualität • Social & Cultural Anthropology • Sozialanthropologie • Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie • Transsexualität • Transsexualität
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-1067-4 / 1444310674
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-1067-2 / 9781444310672