Lesbian and Gay Studies

An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach

Theo Sandfort, Judith Schuyf, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Jeffrey Weeks, Theo Sandfort, Judith Schuyf, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Jeffrey Weeks

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9780761954187
  9780761954170
• eBook ISBN:
  9781849208215
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Studi su tematiche LGBT

This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking: What is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge? And what are its achievements and research agenda?

The gay and lesbian movement has emerged as a major political and cultural force. It poses a series of far reaching questions about the organization of identity, the operation of power and the limits of tolerance. Lesbian and Gay Studies has emerged as a vital and enriching field. It offers challenges to more traditional disciplines and requires new forms of thought about the connections between academic work and personal politics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• 1 - The Challenge of Lesbian and Gay Studies
• 2 - Homosexuality, Psychology, and Gay and Lesbian Studies
• 3 - Mapping the Sociological Gay: Past, Presents and Futures of a Sociology of Same Sex Relations
• 4 - Hidden from History? Homosexuality and the Historical Sciences
• 5 - Queering Anthropology
• 6 - Homo Legalis: Lesbian and Gay in Legal Studies
• 7 - The Private and the Public: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Political Science
• 8 - Geographies of Sexuality - A Review of Progress
• 9 - Gay Male Literary Studies
• 10 - Lesbian Literary Studies
• 11 - Fashionably Queer: Lesbian and Gay Cultural Studies
• 12 - Crossing Borders - A Debate on the Perspectives of Women's Studies and Gay and Lesbian Studies
• 13 - Fighting the Epidemic: Social AIDS Studies
• 14 - Conclusion: Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Crossroads
• Index