American homo : community and perversity /

Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur...

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Main Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998
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505 0 |a pt. 1. Sexual Revolution. 1. Sexual Revolution and the Politics of Gay Identity. 2. The Political Economy of the Closet: Toward an Economic History of Gay and Lesbian Life before Stonewall. 3. Homosexuality and the Sociological Imagination: Hegemonic Discourses, the Circulation of Ideas, and the Process of Reading in the 1950s and 1960s -- pt. 2. Intellectuals and Cultural Politics. 4. Inside the Ivory Closet: The Challenge Facing Lesbian and Gay Studies. 5. From Community to University: Generations, Paradigms, and Vernacular Knowledge in Lesbian and Gay Studies. 6. Intellectuals, Identity Politics, and the Contest for Cultural Authority. 7. Pessimism of the Mind: Universities and the Decline of Public Discourse. 8. Under the Sign of the Queer: Cultural Studies and Social Theory -- pt. 3. From Identity Politics to Radical Democracy. 9. The Limits of Multiculturalism: Identity Politics and the Transformation of the Public Sphere 
505 8 |a 10. Reflections on Queer Nation / Jeffrey Escoffier and Allan Berube. 11. Culture Wars and Identity Politics: The Religious Right and the Cultural Politics of Homosexuality -- Conclusion: Meditations in an Emergency 
520 |a Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an urban subculture created by stigmatized and invisible men and women evolved into a vital public community with an activist political agenda and an influential position in contemporary American culture. Detailing what he calls the "political economy of the closet," Escoffier argues that the market process often played a crucial role (for better or for worse) in the emergence of gay and lesbian communities, and conversely, that these new communities have significantly impacted the American marketplace. From the development of a camp sensibility in popular culture--inspired by the erotic exhibitionism of drag queens--to the public reformation of safer-sex guidelines, Escoffier demonstrates how the gay movement has gradually acquired both social authority and recognition as a booming market. Throughout the ongoing struggle for legitimacy, gays and lesbians have had to negotiate the historical tension between the homoeroticism that courses through American culture and periodic outbreaks of homophobic paranoia. Escoffier follows the lesbian and gay movement across the contested terrain of American political life between the poles of multiculturalism and the religious right, to reveal how sexual minorities constitute a challenge to American society even as they are thoroughly integrated as citizens and kin. From McCarthy-era witchhunts to the activism of Queer Nation, Escoffier vividly describes the characteristic American homosexual journey through the tangled political web of authenticity, identity, and community 
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