Synopses & Reviews
This accessible and authoritative book looks at the key debates in gay and lesbian studies and provides an introductory overview and critical reflection of each field.
Synopsis
This accessible and authoritative book looks at the key debates in gay and lesbian studies and provides an introductory overview and critical reflection of each field.
Table of Contents
Contested borders, contingent lives /Richard Johnson --Love's labours :playing it straight on the Oprah Winfrey show /Debbie Epstein and Deborah Lynn Steinberg --Technologies of heterosexuality :eugenic reproductions under glass /Deborah Lynn Steinberg --Invasion of the monstrous others :heterosexual masculinities, the "AIDS carrier" and the horror genre /Peter Redman --Impedimenta :dramaturgy of the divine offspring /Deborah Lynn Steinberg --Masculinities and schooling :why are young men so homophobic? /Anoop Nayak and Mary Jane Kehily --Educating Peter :the making of a history man /Peter Redman and Maâirtâin Mac an Ghaill --What's in a ban? :the popular media, Romeo and Juliet and compulsory heterosexuality /Debbie Epstein --Grievous recognitions 1 :poems of love, loss and reparation -- 2 :the grieving process and sexual boundaries /Richard Johnson --Eating the other :imaging the fantasy of incorporation /Adrian Kear.