Tearoom Trade

Impersonal Sex in Public Places

Laud Humphreys (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1975 | 2nd edition
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
978-0-202-30283-6 (ISBN)

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From the time of its first publication, 'Tearoom Trade' engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of "deviant" sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in public restrooms—"tearooms" in the argot—the book explored the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality was kept from their families and neighbors. By posing as an initiate, the author was able to engage in systematic observation of homosexual acts in public settings, and later to develop a more complete picture of those involved by interviewing them in their homes, again without revealing their unwitting participation in his study. This enlarged edition of 'Tearoom Trade' includes the original text, together with a retrospect, written by Nicholas von Hoffman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Lee Rainwater, Donald P. Warwick, and Myron Glazer. The material added includes a perspective on the social scientist at work and the ethical problems to which that work may give rise, along with debate by the book's initial critics and proponents. Humphreys added a postscript and his views on the opinion expressed in the retrospect.

Laud Humphreys received his divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and spent fourteen years in the ministry of the Episcopal Church. After returning to graduate school, he received his PhD in sociology from Washington University in 1968. Dr. Humphreys taught at SUNY Albany, Southern Illinois University, and until his death in 1988 was professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.

1. Public Settings for Private Encounters 2. Methods: The Sociologist as Voyeur 3. Rules and Roles 4. Patterns of Collective Action 5. Risks of the Game 6. The People Next Door 7. The Breastplate of Righteousness 8. Kicks, Commitment, and Social Control, Postscript: A Question of Ethics, Retrospect: Ethical Issues in Social Research, Sociological Snoopers and Journalistic Moralizers, Tearoom Trade: Means and Ends in Social Research, Donald P . Warwick Impersonal Sex, Myron Glazer Retrospect: Ethical Issues in Social Research.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.1976
Reihe/Serie	Tearoom Trade \| 1.10
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-202-30283-0 / 0202302830
ISBN-13	978-0-202-30283-6 / 9780202302836
Zustand	Neuware