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