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Bodies of Evidence - The Practice of Queer Oral History (Hardcover, New)
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Bodies of Evidence - The Practice of Queer Oral History (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Oral History Series
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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.
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