TY - BOOK AU - Corber,Robert J. AU - Valocchi,Stephen M. TI - Queer studies: an interdisciplinary reader SN - 0631229167 AV - HQ75.15 .Q48 2003 U1 - 306.766 PY - 2003/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell KW - Gay and lesbian studies KW - Homosexuality KW - Research N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt. I; Practices, Identities, Communities; 1; The Trouble with Harry Thaw; Martha M. Umphrey; 2; Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism; Cheryl Chase; 3; Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS; Cathy J. Cohen; 4; Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex Without Women or Men; C. Jacob Hale --; Pt. II; The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality; 5; The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America; Lisa Duggan; 6; The Returns of Cleopatra Jones; Jennifer DeVere Brody; 7; (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler; Laura Kipnis --; Pt. III; Sexual Citizenship and the Nation-State; 8; Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity; Nayan Shah; 9; The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895; John Howard; 10; The Brandon Teena Archive; Judith Halberstam; 11; Sex in Public; Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner --; Pt. IV; Transnationalizing Sexualities; 12; Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan; Jennifer Robertson; 13; Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion; Gayatri Gopinath; 14; The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia; Tom Boellstorff; 15; A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes; Don Kulick N2 - "Queer Studies covers the full range of issues, problems, and controversies in this still emerging field, including sexual politics, cultural constructions of sexuality, transnationalism, race and class, community, sexual citizenship, and the nation-state. An introductory essay written by the editors provides a comprehensive map to this new field, as well as a context for pivotal scholarship that promotes dialogue across the humanities and the social sciences and the interdisciplinary fields of queer studies and women's studies."--BOOK JACKET ER -