The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example (eBook)

Roger N. Lancaster (Autor)

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2024
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39758-3 (ISBN)

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Being gay is not a given. Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay life—in Mexico, for example, and by extension in other places as well.
 
Known for his writings on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cultural studies scholar Roger N. Lancaster ponders four decades of visits to Mexican cities. In a brisk series of reflections combining storytelling, ethnography, critique, and razor-edged polemic, he shows, first, how economic inequality affects sexual subjects and subjectivities in ways both obvious and subtle, and, second, how what it means to be de ambiente—“on the scene” or “in the life”—has metamorphosed under changing political-economic conditions. The result is a groundbreaking intervention into ongoing debates over identity politics—and a renewal of our understanding of how identities are constructed, struggled for, and lived.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction: When the Music Stops 

PART I. PREDICAMENT AND CRISIS: THE STRUGGLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION 

1. Moment of Truth 
2. A Provisional Answer to the Question 
3. Life’s Rich Pageant 
4. Commonplaces 
5. Precarious Lives 

PART II. AMBIENTE AND AMBIGUITY: THE STRUGGLE FOR WHAT ELUDES 

6. Fable of Rapport 
7. Identity and Its Discontents 
8. They Lived in a Different Time from Us
9. Putos 
10. Postcards from the Ambiente 
11. Urban Tribes 
12. A Tale of Two Cities 

Conclusion: The Horizons of Gay Identity 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Coming out • Consumer Culture • Countercultural youth movements • Cultural Studies • el ambiente • Homophobia • Identity • LGBTQ Rights • lives of gay men in mexico • mexican queer history • Scene • Sexuality • Sexual orientation • Social Class • subcultures • Working Class • Zona Rosa
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39758-4 / 0520397584
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39758-3 / 9780520397583