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Love Hurts
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Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human
sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing
our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics,
and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited
themselves to the study of Foucault's "History of Sexuality,"
volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive "History
of Madness." In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western
rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual
deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the
exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming these deft
moves, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new strands of Foucauldian
thought. She then revisits the theorist's ethical work in light of
these discoveries, divining an ethics of eros that sees sexuality
as a lived experience we are repeatedly called on to remember.
Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together
with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other
archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of
sexuality as a product of reason.
An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion
shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social
science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its
most unexpected victory-transforming gay people from a despised
group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and
protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together
a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of
political psychology to provide an understanding of how social
movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally.
Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the
current understanding of how social movements change mass
opinion-through sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from
political leaders-cannot provide an adequate explanation for the
phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public's
views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that
the LGBTQ community's response to the AIDS crisis was a turning
point for public support of gay rights. ACT-UP and related AIDS
organizations strategically targeted political and media leaders,
normalizing news coverage of LGBTQ issues and AIDS and signaled to
LGBTQ people across the United States that their lives were valued.
The net result was an increase in the number of LGBTQ people who
came out and lived their lives openly, and with increased contact
with gay people, public attitudes began to warm and change.
Garretson goes beyond the story of LGBTQ rights to develop an
evidence-based argument for how social movements can alter mass
opinion on any contentious topic.
The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay
women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were
calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in
employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being
treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a
people's movement for gays, socialist by virtue of its demand for
social change, and revolutionary in recognizing the rights of other
oppressed minorities to determine the fight for their own demands.
All history is personal. The author of this political memoir is the
first participant of the Front to write a history of the lesbians
and gay men who joined Gay Liberation and through a process of
Coming Out and radicalization initiated an anarchic campaign that
permanently changed the face of this country.
Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of
psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest
book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously
crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin
ideas--absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and
emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath--form the
backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection.
These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully
eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in
space. Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body's capacities
to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically
eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade
to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier.
This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud,
Foucault, and film studies, or anyone who has ever stopped to
ponder the give and take of human corporeality.
2010 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year Award winner: culture
category 2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner Relevant
Magazine Top 20 Best Overall Books of 2009 winner Englewood Review
of Books: Top 20 Best Overall Books of 2009 winner Christian
Manifesto 2009 Lime Award winner Andrew Marin's life changed
forever when his three best friends came out to him in three
consecutive months. Suddenly he was confronted with the gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender community (GLBT) firsthand. And
he was compelled to understand how he could reconcile his friends
to his faith. In an attempt to answer that question, he and his
wife relocated to Boystown, a predominantly GLBT community in
Chicago. And from his experience and wrestling has come his book,
Love Is an Orientation, a work which elevates the conversation
between Christianity and the GLBT community, moving the focus from
genetics to gospel, where it really belongs. Why are so many people
who are gay wary of people who are Christians? Do GLBT people need
to change who they are? Do Christians need to change what they
believe?Love Is an Orientation is changing the conversation about
sexuality and spirituality, and building bridges from the GLBT
community to the Christian community and, more importantly, to the
good news of Jesus Christ.
In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with
predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style
of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now
as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at its core
the idea of "radical inclusivity" the powerful assertion that
everyone, no matter how seemingly flawed or corrupted, has holiness
within. Whether you are LGBT, have HIV/AIDS, have been in prison,
abuse drugs or alcohol, are homeless, or are otherwise compromised
and marginalized, TFAM tells its people, you are one of God's
creations. In Filled with the Spirit, Ellen Lewin gives us a deeply
empathetic ethnography of the worship and community central to
TFAM, telling the story of how the doctrine of radical inclusivity
has expanded beyond those it originally sought to serve to
encompass people of all races, genders, sexualities, and religious
backgrounds. Lewin examines the seemingly paradoxical relationship
between TFAM and traditional black churches, focusing on how
congregations and individual members reclaim the worship practices
of these churches and simultaneously challenge their authority. The
book looks closely at how TFAM worship is legitimated and enhanced
by its use of gospel music and considers the images of food and
African American culture that are central to liturgical imagery, as
well as how understandings of personal authenticity tie into the
desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Throughout, Lewin takes
up what has been mostly missing from our discussions of race,
gender, and sexuality--close attention to spirituality and faith.
Revised and Expanded Edition Wait-what's wrong with rights? It is
usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should
follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and
gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would
ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under
the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the
poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to
gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions.
But is this strategy effective? In Normal Life Dean Spade presents
revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social
change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans
activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil
rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights
can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative
resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of
harm and violence. In the new afterword to this revised and
expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans
politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal
recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to
fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration
and trans equality advocates to "pinkwash" state violence by
articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans
inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream
visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to
advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that
shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, Normal Life
is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical
transformations it will require.
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies
category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to
twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks "An avalanche
of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides . . . collectively
confirm the book's central thesis: gay culture, or at least gays
and lesbians, did indeed liberate the modern world."-Booklist In a
hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and
almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which
homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the
trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines
a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of
homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a
revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in
the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called "the Homintern"
(an echo of Lenin's "Comintern") by those suspicious of an
international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay
writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers,
politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against
dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity,
celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority
culture. Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and
extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising
openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the
coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism,
and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling
from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New
York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents
a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men
and women who both redefined themselves and changed history.
In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes
aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that
female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for
well over two centuries. Demonstrating how female masculinity is
not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic
staging of hybrid and minority genders, Halberstam catalogs the
diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from
nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king
performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as
empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female
masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of
gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize
them. He rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The
Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine
identity; considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics
surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities; and
explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender
dykes"-lesbians who pass as men-and female-to-male transsexuals who
may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also
tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and
independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators.
Featuring a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary
edition of Female Masculinity remains as insightful, timely, and
necessary as ever.
Is there an option to oppose without automatically participating in
the opposed? This volume explores different perspectives on
dissent, understanding practices, cultures, and theories of
resistance, dispute, and opposition as inherently participative. It
discusses aspects of the body as a political instance, the identity
and subjectivity building of individuals and groups,
(micro-)practices of dissent, and theories of critique from
different disciplinary perspectives. This collection thus touches
upon contemporary issues, recent protests and movements, artistic
subversion and dissent, online activism as well as historic
developments and elemental theories of dissent.
Over time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly
associated, sometimes even synonymous. In "Faeries, Bears, and
Leathermen," Peter Hennen contends that this stigma of effeminacy
exerts a powerful influence on gay subcultures. Through a
comparative ethnographic analysis of three communities, Hennen
explores the surprising ways that conventional masculinity is being
collectively challenged, subverted, or perpetuated in contemporary
gay male culture.
Hennen's colorful study focuses on a trio of groups: the Radical
Faeries, who parody effeminacy by playfully embracing it, donning
prom dresses and glitter; the Bears, who strive to appear like
"regular guys" and celebrate their larger, hairier bodies; and the
Leathermen, who emulate hypermasculine biker culture,
simultaneously paying homage to and undermining notions of
manliness. Along with a historical analysis of the association
between effeminacy and homosexuality, Hennen examines how this
connection affects the groups' sexual practices. Ultimately, he
argues, while all three groups adopt innovative approaches to
gender issues and sexual pleasure, masculine norms continue to
constrain members of each community.
Few words are as steeped in beliefs about gender, sexuality, and
social desirability as "motherhood". Drawing on queer,
postcolonial, and feminist theory, historical sources, personal
narratives, film studies, and original empirical research, the
authors in this book offer queer re-tellings and reexaminations of
reproduction, family, politics, and community. The list of
contributors includes emerging writers as well as established
scholars and activists such as Gary Kinsman, Damien Riggs, Christa
Craven, Cary Costello, Elizabeth Peel, and Rachel Epstein.
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