Negotiating Lesbian and Gay Subjects

ISBN-13: 9780415908337 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str.

Monica Dorenkamp; Richard Henke

Opis

Locating Lesbian and Gay Subjects collects some of the papers from the Fifth Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference. These essays are distinguished by their concern with a politics of location, shifting emphasis from gay and/or lesbian identity to the location of subjects in material experiences or events. Within this framework, the writers examine literature, art, psychoanalysis and personal experience. A number of the essays explore the role that specific racial and ethnic constructions play in the construction of gay men and/or lesbians, and conversely, the role of sexual identities in forming racial and ethnic constructs. Others are focused on the body and how it is created in response to American cultural forces.

O autorze

Monica Dorenkamp is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University. Richard Henke received his doctorate from Rutgers in 1993. Both were members of the Steering Committee for the Fifth Annual Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference in 1991.