Ellen Lewin & William L. Leap 
Out in Public [PDF ebook] 
Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World

Acknowledgments.
Notes on Contributors.
Editors’ Introduction.
Part I. Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience.
1. My Date with Phil Donahue: A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land
(Esther Newton, University of Michigan).
2. Changes and Challenges: Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV
Prevention Work in Guadalajara (Héctor Carrillo, San Francisco
State University).
3. Going Home Ain’t Always Easy: Ethnography and the
Politics of Black Responsibility (E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern
University).
Part II. Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident
Terrain.
4. The Personal Isn’t Always Political (Karen Brodkin,
University of California, Los Angeles).
5. Who’s Gay? What’s Gay?: Dilemmas of Identity
Among Gay Fathers (Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa).
6. A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of
Infidelity and Instability in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem
(Natasha Sandraya Wilson, University of Iowa).
Part III. Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and
Broader Ideological Positions.
7. Tuskegee on the ‘Down Low’: A Bioculturalist Brings the Past
into the Present (Rachel Watkins, American University).
8. Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban
Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries (Scott Morgensen, Macalaster
College).
9. The Power of Stealth: (In)Visible Sites of Female-to-Male
Transsexual Resistance (Elijah Adiv Edelman, American
University).
10. Rumsfeld!: Consensual BDSM and ‘Sadomasochistic Torture’ at
Abu Ghraib (Margot Weiss, Wesleyan University).
11. Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring and (Changing)
Gay Geographies in Washington DC (William L. Leap, American
University).
Part IV. International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and
Transgender Identities.
12. Public Sex:The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the
(In)Visibility of Female Sexualities (Megan Sinnott, Georgia State
University).
13. Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and
Public Activism in Nicaragua (Florence Babb, University of
Florida).
14. Life Lube:Discursive Spheres of Sexuality, Science, and AIDS
(Harris Solomon, Brown University).
15. Man Marries Man in Nigeria? (Rudolf Gaudio, State University
of New York College, Purchase)
Part V. Sexuality and Neo-liberal Citizenship.
16. LGBT Rights in the European Union, a Queer Affair? (Mark
Graham, University of Stockholm).
17. Turning the Lion City Pink?: Interrogating Singapore’s
Gay Civil Servant Statement (Chris Tan, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign).
18. The Marriage between Kinship and Sexuality in New
Mexico’s Domestic Partnership Debate (Lavinia Nicolae,
University of New Mexico).

Ellen Lewin is Professor of Women’s Studies and
Anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is the author of
Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture
(Cornell University Press, 1993) and Recognizing Ourselves:
Lesbian and Gay Ceremonies of Commitment (Columbia University
Press, 1998), and the editor of Inventing Lesbian Cultures in
America (Beacon Press, 1996) and of Feminist Anthropology: A
Reader (Blackwell, 2006). With William L. Leap, she has
co-edited two volumes of essays on lesbian and gay anthropology,
Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay
Anthropologists (University of Illinois Press, 1996) and Out
in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology
(University of Illinois Press, 2002).
William Leap is Professor of Anthropology at American
University. He is the author of Word’s Out: Gay
Men’s English (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), and
editor of Public Sex, Gay Space (Columbia University Press,
1999) and co-editor of Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization
and Gay Language (University of Illinois Press, 2004). With
Ellen Lewin, he has co-edited Out in the Field and Out in
Theory.