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LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey - Exporting Europe? (Hardcover): Maryna Shevtsova LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey - Exporting Europe? (Hardcover)
Maryna Shevtsova
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey focuses on the impact of European Union promotion of LGBTI rights in Turkey and Ukraine, offering a re-evaluation of the mechanisms used by the EU and the domestic and external conditions that result in different outcomes. With the protection of LGBTI rights becoming one of the core principles of the EU, the last two decades have seen a consistently growing commitment of the Union to defending the human rights of LGBTI people, not only in its member states but also internationally. Drawing on rich empirical data, this work uses the cases of Turkey, a candidate state, and Ukraine, a state in the European Neighbourhood, to evaluate the ability of the EU to promote tolerance and diversity in countries where the population has not experienced a radical shift of attitudes toward LGBTI people. Examining the export of 'European values', politics of LGBTI rights in the enlarged European Union, the development of LGBTI rights in Turkey and the transformation of its political system, competing normative powers and LGBTI rights in Ukraine, Maryna Shevtsova traces the 'Europeanization' of rights beyond Europe. This book will be of interest to researchers in LGBTI Studies, Eastern European Politics, the European Union and Gender Studies.

Queer in Translation (Hardcover): B.J. Epstein, Robert Gillett Queer in Translation (Hardcover)
B.J. Epstein, Robert Gillett
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As the field of translation studies has developed, translators and translation scholars have become more aware of the unacknowledged ideologies inherent both in texts themselves and in the mechanisms that affect their circulation. This book both analyses the translation of queerness and applies queer thought to issues of translation. It sheds light on the manner in which heteronormative societies influence the selection, reading and translation of texts and pays attention to the means by which such heterosexism might be subverted. It considers the ways in which queerness can be repressed, ignored or made invisible in translation, and shows how translations might expose or underline the queerness - or the homophobic implications - of a given text. Balancing the theoretical with the practical, this book investigates what is culturally at stake when particular texts are translated from one culture to another, raising the question of the relationship between translation, colonialism and globalization. It also takes the insights derived from intercultural translation studies and applies them to other fields of cultural criticism. The first multi-focus, in-depth study on translating queer, translating queerly and queering translation, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of gender and sexuality, queer theory and queer studies, literature, film studies and translation studies.

Becoming Who I Am - Young Men on Being Gay (Hardcover): Ritch C. Savin-Williams Becoming Who I Am - Young Men on Being Gay (Hardcover)
Ritch C. Savin-Williams
R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Proud, happy, grateful-gay youth describe their lives in terms that would have seemed surprising only a generation ago. Yet many adults, including parents, seem skeptical about this sea change in perceptions and attitudes. Even in an age of growing tolerance, coming out as gay is supposed to involve a crisis or struggle. This is the kind of thinking, say the young men at the heart of this book, that needs to change. Becoming Who I Am is an astute exploration of identity and sexuality as told by today's generation of gay young men. Through a series of in-depth interviews with teenagers and men in their early 20s, Ritch Savin-Williams reflects on how the life stories recorded here fulfill the promise of an affirmative, thriving gay identity outlined in his earlier book, The New Gay Teenager. He offers a contemporary perspective on gay lives viewed across key milestones: from dawning awareness of same-sex attraction to first sexual encounters; from the uncertainty and exhilaration of coming out to family and friends to the forming of adult romantic relationships; from insights into what it means to be gay today to musings on what the future may hold. The voices hail from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, but as gay men they share basic experiences in common, conveyed here with honesty, humor, and joy.

Making Trouble - Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (Hardcover): John D'Emilio Making Trouble - Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (Hardcover)
John D'Emilio
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Perverse Taiwan (Hardcover): Howard Chiang, Yin Wang Perverse Taiwan (Hardcover)
Howard Chiang, Yin Wang
R4,202 Discovery Miles 42 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial Law in 1987. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to contextualize that development from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its genealogical roots, sociological manifestations, and cultural representations. This book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia. Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan's past and present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the growing popularity of cross-dressing performance and tongzhi (gay and lesbian) cinema on the cusp of a new millennium. Together, the contributions provide a detailed account of the rise and transformations of queer cultures in post-World War II Taiwan. By instigating new dialogues across disciplinary divides, this book will have broad appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies and queer studies, especially those interested in history, anthropology, literature, film, media, and performance.

The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events - Roving Colonialism (Hardcover): Heather Sykes The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events - Roving Colonialism (Hardcover)
Heather Sykes
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the 'roving colonialism' of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial contexts-the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution-the book examines sporting 'homonationalism' and anti-colonial resistance. The first part discusses different moments of 'homonationalism' in sport. The second part explores how indigenous and anti-colonial protests against mega-sport events lead to different views about gender and sexuality politics in sport. It offers a critical counter-narrative to the view that gay and lesbian inclusion in global sporting events is simply a matter of universal human rights. The book calls for LGBT social movements in sport to move away from complicity with neoliberalism, nationalism and colonial-racial logics, particularly Islamophobia, toward a decolonial politics of solidarity. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded, this book draws together important threads in the contemporary study of sport to illuminate the relationship between sport and wider society. It will be fascinating reading for any student or researcher interested in the sociology of sport, Olympic studies, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, settler colonial studies or the politics of race and inclusion.

Feminism Without Women - Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age (Hardcover): Tania Modleski Feminism Without Women - Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age (Hardcover)
Tania Modleski
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)

LGBT-Q Teachers, Civil Partnership and Same-Sex Marriage - The Ambivalences of Legitimacy (Hardcover): Aoife Neary LGBT-Q Teachers, Civil Partnership and Same-Sex Marriage - The Ambivalences of Legitimacy (Hardcover)
Aoife Neary
R4,201 Discovery Miles 42 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The introduction of legislative structures for same-sex relationships provides a new lens for grappling with the politics of sexuality in schools and society. The emergence of civil partnership and same-sex marriage in Ireland brings to the fore international debates around public intimacy, religion in the public sphere, secularism and the politics of sexuality equality. Building on queer, feminist and affect theory in innovative ways, this book offers insight into the everyday negotiations of LGBT-Q teachers as they operate between and across the intersecting fields of education, religion and LGBT-Q politics. Neary illustrates the complexity of negotiating personal and professional identities for LGBT-Q teachers.

Lesbians and White Privilege (Hardcover): Andrea L. Dottolo Lesbians and White Privilege (Hardcover)
Andrea L. Dottolo
R3,900 Discovery Miles 39 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There are three overarching themes that connect the chapters: interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and identity. This interdisciplinary compilation includes contributions from scholars in cultural studies, social work, English, psychology, anthropology, and education. Essays include empirical research, making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods as well as personal reflections and interpretation. Each chapter makes central the critical significance of intersectionality, locating privilege and oppression within larger social systems and institutional structures, as an 'interlocking matrix of relationships.' These chapters challenge, recognize, and question whiteness, with the intention that they encourage us to do the same, in our own lives, practices, behaviors, and disciplines. By taking whiteness seriously, we might begin to move toward explicit antiracist efforts, dismantling those structures and hierarchies that enable only some to speak as 'just humans.' The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Godspeed - A Memoir (Paperback): Casey Legler Godspeed - A Memoir (Paperback)
Casey Legler
R449 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Save R83 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities (Paperback): David W. Foster Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities (Paperback)
David W. Foster
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity (Hardcover): Anne Hellum Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity (Hardcover)
Anne Hellum
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book. The Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity are analysed in the light of the dynamic jurisprudence of different human rights treaty bodies. Whether and how the status quo of gender duality is reproduced, in spite of international law's growing recognition of the multiplicity of sexualities and gender identities, is discussed. How transgender men, in countries that permit legal gender change, have been successfully prosecuted for gender fraud by female partners claiming to be unaware of their gender history is given attention. While human rights discourse related to LGBTI persons so far has been moulded on the experiences of adults this book gives voice to the concerns of gender-non confirming children. The jurisprudence of the Child Rights Committee, with focus on the complex social and legal issues faced by gender non-confirming children, is addressed. Through narratives, that give voice to these children's experiences, the book demonstrates how the legal gender assigned at birth impacts on their feeling of recognition, self-confidence and self-respect in the private, social, and legal spheres. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

Equal Ever After - The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage - And How I Made it Happen (Hardcover): Lynne Featherstone Equal Ever After - The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage - And How I Made it Happen (Hardcover)
Lynne Featherstone 1
R463 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R117 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"My story starts at the very end of the journey to equal marriage rights. I stand on the shoulders of giants..."In the future, people will find it difficult to believe that until 2014, somewhere between 5 and 10 per cent of Britain's population were excluded from marriage.As Equalities Minister during the coalition government, Lynne Featherstone played a fundamental role in rectifying this. From setting the wheels in motion within government, to her experiences of the abuse with which the gay community is regularly confronted, through her rebuttals against the noise and fury of her opponents, and finally to the making of history, Lynne details the surprising twists and turns of the fight. Filled with astonishing revelations about finding allies in unexpected places and encountering resistance from unforeseen foes, Equal Ever After is an honest account of one woman's pivotal efforts during the turbulent final mile.This is real, lived history - recent history. Many of us celebrated on the day the dream became reality; many of us know people whose lives were changed by the events described here.In this inside story, Lynne reveals the emotional lows and the exhilarating highs involved in turning hard-won social acceptance into tangible legal equality.

Queering Your Therapy Practice - Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities (Paperback): Julie Tilsen Queering Your Therapy Practice - Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities (Paperback)
Julie Tilsen
R1,002 Discovery Miles 10 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Provides a practical resource for both seasoned therapists and students which demonstrates how therapeutic practice can be informed, improved, and deepened by queer theory. * Explores conversational practices from narrative therapy that will help therapists to address issues of gender, sex, sexuality, relationships, and identity. * Each chapter includes a case vignette, bringing to life the application of queer theory through the practice of narrative therapy and serving as a teaching tool for the specific concepts and practices highlighted. * The book includes questions for reflection and discussion to deconstruct and make meaning of the chapter's material, as well as 'Q-tips', summarizing key points and practices. * Transcripts from therapy or supervision sessions are also integrated into the chapters.

Outlooks - Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures (Paperback): Peter Horne, Reina Lewis Outlooks - Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures (Paperback)
Peter Horne, Reina Lewis
R1,176 Discovery Miles 11 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time as it tackles such burning issues as the advantage of adopting a queer perspective on past art, the responses of lesbian and gay artists to the AIDS crisis, and society's attempts to censor homosexual art.
This volume provides a space for lesbian and gay artists to exhibit their work and discuss its relationship to sexuality. It allows for a wide ranging theoretical and historical discussion of the place of lesbian and gay men within visual cultures and shows how much has been missed by a heterosexist approach to art history and the study of culture.
Richly illustrated, this book includes statements by contemporary lesbian and gay artists, photographers and performers as well as articles by art historians, cultural theorists and lesbians and gay activists.

Choosing Family - A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance (Hardcover): Francesca T. Royster Choosing Family - A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance (Hardcover)
Francesca T. Royster
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago's North and South SidesAs a multiracial household in Chicago's North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly means. Like Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, this lyrical and affecting memoir focuses on a unit of three: the author; her wife Annie, who's white; and Cecilia, the Black daughter they adopt as a couple in their forties and fifties. Choosing Family chronicles this journey to motherhood while examining the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a Black, queer, and feminist perspective. Royster also explores her memories of the matriarchs of her childhood and the homes these women created in Chicago's South Side-itself a dynamic character in the memoir-where "family" was fluid, inclusive, and not necessarily defined by marriage or other socially recognized contracts. Calling upon the work of some of her favorite queer thinkers, including Jose Esteban Munoz and Audre Lorde, Royster interweaves her experiences and memories with queer and gender theory to argue that many Black families, certainly her own, have historically had a "queer" attitude toward family: configurations that sit outside the white normative experience and are the richer for their flexibility and generosity of spirit. A powerful, genre-bending memoir of family, identity, and acceptance, Choosing Family, ultimately, is about joy-about claiming the joy that society did not intend to assign to you, or to those like you.

Muscle Boys - Gay Gym Culture (Hardcover): Erick Alvarez Muscle Boys - Gay Gym Culture (Hardcover)
Erick Alvarez
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What was once a lifestyle for a small number of gay men in big cities has become a way of life for many, and the gay gym is now a culture on its own. Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture explores the evolution and current structure of this gay subculture that surfaced in San Francisco, West Hollywood, and New York during the 1970s. Covering ancient Greek gymnasium culture, modern bodybuilding practices, and homoerotic muscle-bound media, Muscles Boys examines the origins of the male athletic ideal. A sociological investigation on masculinity, fitness, HIV, steroids, and sex in the locker room, Muscle Boys dissects the gay gym experience, and celebrates gay body culture and its role in modern gay life. Author Erick Alvarez offers a candid study of the gay gym from his perspective as a physical trainer in the San Francisco Bay area, and from his interviews and online surveys of nearly 6,000 gay men. Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture is an enlightening read for anyone interested in gay body culture, and a valuable resource for academics working in GLBT studies, human sexuality, psychology, or athletics.

LGBTQ Voices in Education - Changing the Culture of Schooling (Hardcover): Veronica E. Bloomfield, Marni E. Fisher LGBTQ Voices in Education - Changing the Culture of Schooling (Hardcover)
Veronica E. Bloomfield, Marni E. Fisher
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

LGBTQ Voices in Education: Changing the Culture of Schooling addresses the ways in which teachers can meet the needs of LGBTQ students and improve the culture surrounding gender, sexuality, and identity issues in formal learning environments. Written by experts from a variety of backgrounds including educational foundations, leadership, cultural studies, literacy, criminology, theology, media assessment, and more, these chapters are designed to help educators find the inspiration and support they need to become allies and advocates of queer students, whose safety, well-being, and academic performance are regularly and often systemically threatened. Emphasizing socially just curricula, supportive school climates, and transformative educational practices, this innovative book is applicable to K-12, college-level, and graduate settings, and beyond.

Queering Science Communication - Representations, Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Tara Roberson, Lindy A. Orthia Queering Science Communication - Representations, Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Tara Roberson, Lindy A. Orthia
R2,375 Discovery Miles 23 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A book on queer themes and science communication is timely, if not well overdue. LGBTIQA+ people have unique contributions to make and issues to meet through science communication. So, bringing 'queer' and 'science communication' together is an important step for queer protest, liberation, and visibility. This collection examines the place of queer people within science communication and asks what it means for the field to 'queer' science communication practice, theory and research agendas. Written by leading names in the field, it offers concrete examples for academics, students and practitioners who strive to foster radical inclusivity and equity in science communication.

Out in Sport - The experiences of openly gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport (Hardcover): Eric Anderson, Rory... Out in Sport - The experiences of openly gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport (Hardcover)
Eric Anderson, Rory Magrath, Rachael Bullingham
R3,757 Discovery Miles 37 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Research has shown that since the turn of the millennia, matters have rapidly improved for gays and lesbians in sport. Where gay and lesbian athletes were merely tolerated a decade ago, today they are celebrated. This book represents the most comprehensive examination of the experiences of gays and lesbians in sport ever produced. Drawing on interviews with openly gay and lesbian athletes in the US and the UK, as well as media accounts, the book examines the experiences of 'out' men and women, at recreational, high school, university and professional levels, in addition to those competing in gay sports leagues. Offering a new approach to understanding this important topic, Out in Sport is essential reading for students and scholars of sport studies, LGBT studies and sociology, as well as sports practitioners and trainers.

Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality (Paperback): Jennifer Hargreaves, Eric Anderson Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality (Paperback)
Jennifer Hargreaves, Eric Anderson
R2,097 Discovery Miles 20 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality. It introduces what is, in essence, a sophisticated sub-area of sport sociology, covering the field comprehensively, as well as signalling ideas for future research and analysis. Wide-ranging across different historical periods, different sports, and different local and global contexts, the book incorporates personal, ideological and political narratives; varied conceptual, methodological and theoretical approaches; and examples of complexities and nuanced ways of understanding the gendered and sexualized dynamics of sport. It examines structural and cultural forms of gender segregation, homophobia, heteronormativity and transphobia, as well as the ideological struggles and changes that have led to nuanced ways of thinking about the sport, gender and sexuality nexus. This is a landmark work of reference that will be a key resource for students and researchers working in sport studies, gender studies, sexuality studies or sociology.

Outing Yourself (Paperback, Fireside ed): Signorile Outing Yourself (Paperback, Fireside ed)
Signorile
R429 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No matter how much you prepare, coming out as gay or lesbian is a difficult, emotional process -- a process that will continue long after the words are spoken and the secret is out. There's no magic formula, but Outing Yourself by Michelangelo Signorile offers structure, guidance, and straightforward advice to all those:

WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH THEIR SEXUALITY AND UNSURE OF WHAT TO DO
WHO HAVE ACCEPTED THAT THEY ARE GAY BUT ARE STILL AFRAID TO COME OUT
WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES OUT OF THE CLOSET BUT REALIZE THEY HAVE FARTHER TO GO

Signorile's 14-step program -- complete with exercises, meditation notes, and anger checks, as well as the accounts of the coming-out experiences of other lesbians and gay men -- shows how you can successfully handle this life-changing, life-renewing process. A guide for the coming-out journey, Outing Yourself will convince all who read it that, in the words of the author, "The stress of coming out will never be as hard on you as the stress of staying in was."

LGBTQ Voices in Education - Changing the Culture of Schooling (Paperback): Veronica E. Bloomfield, Marni E. Fisher LGBTQ Voices in Education - Changing the Culture of Schooling (Paperback)
Veronica E. Bloomfield, Marni E. Fisher
R1,534 Discovery Miles 15 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

LGBTQ Voices in Education: Changing the Culture of Schooling addresses the ways in which teachers can meet the needs of LGBTQ students and improve the culture surrounding gender, sexuality, and identity issues in formal learning environments. Written by experts from a variety of backgrounds including educational foundations, leadership, cultural studies, literacy, criminology, theology, media assessment, and more, these chapters are designed to help educators find the inspiration and support they need to become allies and advocates of queer students, whose safety, well-being, and academic performance are regularly and often systemically threatened. Emphasizing socially just curricula, supportive school climates, and transformative educational practices, this innovative book is applicable to K-12, college-level, and graduate settings, and beyond.

Atmospheres of Violence - Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Paperback): Eric A. Stanley Atmospheres of Violence - Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Paperback)
Eric A. Stanley
R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past-marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation-have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. In calling for trans/queer organizing and worldmaking beyond these forms, Stanley points to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.

Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights - Making the Radical Palatable (Hardcover): Jacob Juntunen Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights - Making the Radical Palatable (Hardcover)
Jacob Juntunen
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000. This is the first study to combine the topics of the politics of performance, LGBT theatre, and mainstream theatre's political potential, a juxtaposition that shows how radical ideas become mainstream, that is, how the dominant ideology changes. Using materialist semiotics and extensive archival research, Juntunen delineates the cultural history of four pivotal productions from that period-Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart (1985), Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1992), Jonathan Larson's Rent (1996), and Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project (2000). Examining the connection between AIDS, mainstream theatre, and the media reveals key systems at work in ideological change over time during a deadly epidemic whose effects changed the nation forever. Employing media theory alongside nationalism studies and utilizing dozens of reviews for each case study, the volume demonstrates that reviews are valuable evidence of how a production was hailed by society's ideological gatekeepers. Mixing this new use of reviews alongside textual analysis and material study-such as the theaters' locations, architectures, merchandise, program notes, and advertising-creates an uncommonly rich description of these productions and their ideological effects. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre, politics, media studies, queer theory, and US history, and to those with an interest in gay civil rights, one of the most successful social movements of the late twentieth century.

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