Honky Tonk Angels

ISBN-13: 9783639133769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 276 str.

Corey Johnson

Opis

Informed by feminist theory and critiques of masculinity, this narrative ethnography focuses on how gay men come to understand and negotiate the meaning of masculinity in a country-western gay bar. Gay bars, specifically designed to wall out straights, remain a central social institution and leisure context for a number of gay men. To understand the space as a leisure context, this project thoroughly documents the bars relationship to the community, its physical location, design, décor and ambiance, its inhabitants, its historical existence, and how it varies according to different nights of the week. Moving beyond this description I also focus on the social practices of dance, dress, patterns of migration, and competing discourses about Lesbian Night. These factors elucidate how organized social space can allow non-heterosexuals to both resist and reinforce compulsory heterosexuality and hegemonic gender ideologies in and through leisure.

O autorze

Dr. Corey W. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Counseling & Human Development Services at the University of
Georgia. His qualitative inquiry focuses on non-dominant
populations in the context of leisure. His own leisure
includes traveling with his partner Yancey and playing with
his dogs Foucault & Butler.