Lesbian and Gay Studies
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Lesbian and Gay Studies

An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Lesbian and Gay Studies

An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Lesbian and Gay Studies by Theo Sandfort, Judith Schuyf, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Jeffrey Weeks, Theo Sandfort,Judith Schuyf,Jan Willem Duyvendak,Jeffrey Weeks in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & LGBT Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of Contributors
  4. Foreword
  5. 1 - The Challenge of Lesbian and Gay Studies
  6. 2 - Homosexuality, Psychology, and Gay and Lesbian Studies
  7. 3 - Mapping the Sociological Gay: Past, Presents and Futures of a Sociology of Same Sex Relations
  8. 4 - Hidden from History? Homosexuality and the Historical Sciences
  9. 5 - Queering Anthropology
  10. 6 - Homo Legalis: Lesbian and Gay in Legal Studies
  11. 7 - The Private and the Public: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Political Science
  12. 8 - Geographies of Sexuality - A Review of Progress
  13. 9 - Gay Male Literary Studies
  14. 10 - Lesbian Literary Studies
  15. 11 - Fashionably Queer: Lesbian and Gay Cultural Studies
  16. 12 - Crossing Borders - A Debate on the Perspectives of Women's Studies and Gay and Lesbian Studies
  17. 13 - Fighting the Epidemic: Social AIDS Studies
  18. 14 - Conclusion: Gay and Lesbian Studies at the Crossroads
  19. Index