Judith Schuyf & Jan Willem Duyvendak 
Lesbian and Gay Studies [PDF ebook] 
An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach

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 and enriching field. It offers challenges to more traditional disciplines and requires new forms of thought about the connections between academic work and personal politics.

قائمة المحتويات

The Challenge of Lesbian and Gay Studies – Jeffrey Weeks

Homosexuality, Psychology, and Gay and Lesbian Studies – Theo Sandfort

Mapping the Sociological Gay – Ken Plummer

Past, Presents and Futures of a Sociology of Same-Sex Relations

Hidden from History? Homosexuality and the Historical Sciences – Judith Schuyf

Queering Anthropology – Gert Hekma

Homo Legalis – Leslie J Moran

Lesbian and Gay in Legal Studies

The Private and the Public – Andr[ac]e Krouwel and Jan Willem Duyvendak

Gay and Lesbian Issues in Political Science

Geographies of Sexuality – Jon Binnie and Gill Valentine

A Review of Progress

Gay Male Literary Studies – Marco Pustianaz

Lesbian Literary Studies – Liana Borghi

Fashionably Queer – Ren[ac]ee C Hoogland

Lesbian and Gay Cultural Studies

Crossing Borders – Theo Sandfort and Hansje Galesloot

A Debate on the Perspectives of Women′s Studies and Gay and Lesbian Studies

Fighting the Epidemic – Rommel Mend[gr]es-Leite and Onno de Zwart

Social AIDS Studies

Conclusion – Judith Schuyf and Theo Sandfort

Gay and Lesbian Studies at a Crossroads

عن المؤلف

Jeffrey Weeks OBE (born 1945, in Rhondda, Wales) is a historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality, and is also a gay activist.