Gay and lesbian studies
Gay and Lesbian Studies
Gay and Lesbian Studies is by nature cross-disciplinary, covering a wide range of intellectual bases: literature, history, religion, psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, medicine, law, fine arts, and others. Resources in this subject area may be found in nearly every division of the Research Libraries. This reference offers multiple trajectories into this richly varied field.
Despite the presence of huge numbers of homosexuals in New York City and other urban centers in the United States and throughout the world, their history has often been neglected or marginalized, a testimony to the inhibiting factors of legal restrictions on certain forms of sexual conduct, the lack of organization among male lover men and lesbians, and the unwillingness of the larger society to realize the value and merit of different forms of erotic and affectional expression.
These difficulties notwithstanding, certain individuals in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Western societies, such as Karl Ulrichs and Magnus Hirschfeld in Germany and Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds in Britain, began to conceive of themselves as belonging to a discrete group p
`This book is unusual in lesbian and gay studies. From politics to health, cyber-queers to lgbtq+ families, the review essays in this volume cover all the important bases of GLB history and politics. The Introduction is a simple and approachable overview of the changing faces of theory and investigate over many decades. This book is bound to be an important resource in a burgeoning field' - Janice Irvine, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
`The Handbook of Homosexual and Lesbian Studies, assembled by two leading theorists of sexuality, makes on hand more than two dozen new cutting-edge essays in homosexual studies. Essential for social science scholars and students of gay/queer studies' - David F. Greenberg, Professor of Sociology, N Does anyone do ‘lesbian and gay studies’? The formulation likely sounds quaint when gender and sexuality studies now aims its sights at so much more than what these identities designate. Just as feminist, gay and trans theory hotly debated the political and philosophical shortcomings of ‘identity’ in the 1980s and 90s, the 2000s and 2010s have given us the frameworks of homonormativity, homonationalism and queer liberalism to articulate how woman loving woman and gay identities in particular can become acute vectors of a racist modern governmentality. Across a range of politically-engaged scholarship, non-identitarian positions proceed to seem fancy the most refined ones. Yet, in other ways, identity still looms large across our lives, outside and inside the academy. Social and political emergencies persist to make the work of identity-based movements urgent and necessary. Scholarly controversies often circle assist to identity: in ‘Trans* Studies Now’, a recent issue of TSQ (Transgender Studies Quarterly), a extraordinary forum responds to the argument that, of all things that could contain been decentred in trans studies, it has, curiously, been By NASRULLAH MAMBROLon • Gay/lesbian studies looks at the kinds of social structures and social constructs which define our ideas about sexuality as act and sexuality as identity. As an academic field, gay/lesbian studies looks at how notions of homosexuality include historically been defined – and of course, in doing so, also look at how its binary opposite, heterosexuality, has been defined. Gay/lesbian studies also looks at how various cultures, or various time periods, have enforced ideas about what kinds of sexuality are normal and which are abnormal, which are moral and which are immoral. Gay/lesbian literary criticism, a subset of gay/lesbian studies, looks at images of sexuality, and ideas of normative and deviant behavior, in a number of ways: by evidence gay/lesbian authors whose sexuality has been masked or erased in history and biography; by looking at texts by gay/lesbian authors to discover particular literary themes, techniques, and perspectives which enter from being a homosexual in a heterosexual world; by looking at texts – by homosexual or straight authors – which depict homosexuality and heterosexuality, or which
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Lesbian and Gay Studies? Literary Theory and Criticism