Bodies of Evidence - The Practice of Queer Oral History (Hardcover, New)

Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history excerpt with an essay in which the oral historian addresses his or her methods and practices. With an afterword by John D'Emilio, this collection enables readers to examine the role memory, desire, sexuality, and gender play in documenting LGBTQ communities and cultures.
The historical themes addressed include 1950s and '60s lesbian bar culture; social life after the Cuban revolution; the organization of transvestite social clubs in the U.S. midwest in the 1960s; Australian gay liberation activism in the 1970s; San Francisco electoral politics and the career of Harvey Milk; Asian American community organizing in pre-AIDS Los Angeles; lesbian feminist "sex war" cultural politics; 1980s and '90s Latina/o transgender community memory and activism in San Francisco; and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The methodological themes include questions of silence, sexual self-disclosure and voyeurism, the intimacy between researcher and narrator, and the social and political commitments negotiated through multiple oral history interviews. The book also examines the production of comparative racial and sexual identities and the relative strengths of same-sexuality, cross-sexuality, and cross-ideology interviewing.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Oral History Series
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	February 2012
Editors:	Nan Alamilla Boyd (Professor of women & gender studies) • Horacio N. Roque-Ramirez (Associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies)
Dimensions:	237 x 162 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	312
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-989066-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > History > Theory & methods > General
LSN:	0-19-989066-8
Barcode:	9780199890668

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