Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences

ISBN-13: 9780415064217 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 304 str.

Ken Plummer

Opis

Homosexuality is not what it used to be. When the modern lesbian and gay movements errupted on the world wide cultural and political stage during the early 1970s few could have seen the enormous ramifications. For although homosexuality still has its critics and its enemies, the modern lesbian and gay community has proliferated into distinctive ways of living together, of relating sexually, of responding to AIDS, of establishing identities and communities, of being political. Modern Homosexualities documents some of this rich and developing experience. It presents fragments of an experience that has become remarkably diverse. In 19 original essays from activists and social scienctists in eight countries, this diversity is charted. It is a unique collection which draws together essays on a wide range of experience. A major section examines the development and recognition of new patterns of families of choice such as the Danish experiement on Registered Partnerships, the Australian immigration definition of lesbian and gay couples, the debate over lesbian motherhood, and the issue of mixed marriages where one partner is gay.

Recenzje

`there is good stuff in Modern Homosexualities...Anna Marie Smith manages new and important ideas on queer activism...this book will help sociologists to do Lesbian and Gay studies' - Alan Sinfield, Gay Times.

Spis treści

Husseyin Tapinc, Stephen Murray, Judith Schuyf, Val Jeness, Peter Davies, Maggie French, Pat Romans, Peter Nardi, Henning Bech, John Hart, Diana Richardson, Anna-Marie Smith, Tim Edwards, Beth Schneider, Barry Adam, Vicki Carter, Bill Thompson, Jason Annets, Peter Tatchell

O autorze

Ken Plummer