Lesbian and gay studies an introductory, interdisciplinary approach (SAGE, 2000)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
The challenge of lesbian and gay studies / Jeffrey Weeks -- Homosexuality, psychology, and gay and lesbian studies / Theo Sandfort -- Mapping the sociological gay : past, presents and futures of a sociology of same sex relations / Ken Plummer -- Hidden from history? Homosexuality and the historical sciences / Judith Schuyf -- Queering anthropology / Gert Hekma -- Homo legalis : lesbian and gay in legal studies / Leslie J. Moran -- The private and the public : gay and lesbian issues in political science / André Krouwel and Jan Willem Duyvendak -- Geographies of sexuality--a review of progress / Jon Binnie and Gill Valentine -- Gay male literary studies / Marco Pustianaz -- Lesbian literary studies / Liana Borghi -- Fashionably queer : lesbian and gay cultural studies / renée c. hoogland -- Crossing borders--a debate on the perspectives of women's studies and gay and lesbian studies / Theo Sandfort and Hansje Galesloot -- Fighting the epidemic : social AIDS studies / Rommel Mendès-Leite and Onno de Zwart -- Conclusion : Gay and lesbian studies at the crossroads / Judith Schuyf and Theo Sandfort
This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking: What is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge? And what are its achievements and research agenda? The gay and lesbian movement has emerged as a major political and cultural force. It poses a series of far reaching questions about the organization of identity, the operation of power and the limits of tolerance. Lesbian and Gay Studies has emerged as a vital